Re: [OT] noatime

2006-11-15 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:35:38 -0800 "Philip M. Gollucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [OT] noatime

2006-11-15 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
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

Re: [OT] noatime

2006-11-15 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:55:00 -0500 Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [OT] noatime

2006-11-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
It absolutely helps performance. Atime is access time. Otherwise basically everytime a file is accessed, the atime is updated. This causes a lot of little writes to the hard drive constantly. I have recently begun turning it off on our servers in the past 2 years because in 10 years, I've n

[OT] noatime

2006-11-15 Thread Perrin Harkins
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? - Perrin