Tuning I/O resources
Input/output (I/O) is the process
of transferring data from memory to a device, from
a device to memory, or from one device to another.
Most I/O usually occurs between memory and the system's
hard disk drives, though on some multiuser systems,
it might be between the system and terminals connected via the
network or serial lines.
If the speed at which peripheral devices can access and
communicate data to the system is relatively slow, the
operating system
may spend most of its time
idle waiting for I/O
with many
processes
asleep until the I/O completes.
The following sections contain information about the monitoring
and tuning of various I/O subsystems:
Next topic:
Subsystems that affect disk and other I/O
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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003