On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:34:59PM +0100, Andrew Braithwaite wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a database with many files in it and our research tells us that > disabling the recording of atime (access time) for that DB may have > significant performance improvement. > > 2 questions: > > 1. Has anyone done this and if so, what results did they have?
We've run many servers on which atime is disabled for MySQL's data. > 2. Is the atime used in MySQL/MyISAM and will the disabling of atime cause > problems? It has never caused a problem for us. -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.13: up 17 days, processed 869,633,877 queries (591/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
