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Re: [OT] noatime


On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:35:38 -0800
"Philip M. Gollucci" <suppressed> wrote:

> Perrin Harkins wrote:
> > Most of the apache tuning guides, as well as the MySQL docs,
> > recommend turning off atime on your filesystem (setting noatime).
> > Are other people doing this?  Do you know if it has helped with
> > performance?  Have you found any problems with it?
> I don't do it with /www file systems, but when I do FBSD build worlds
> 
> mount -u -o noatime /usr/src
> mount -u -o async /usr/obj
> 
> Thats incredibly stable.
> 
> It helps quite substantially with performance.

   Another thing I thought I'd mention, you don't have to do it for
   an entire filesystem.  You can use chattr +A /path/to/file and it
   will just not record atime for that file ( or files ). 

   Nice if you want to play around and see what type of impact it
   will have on your system without having to remount your filesystem.

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   Frank Wiles <suppressed>
   http://www.wiles.org
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