On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:20:46PM +0200, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > > I also seem to remember some special mount options that were used for > NNTP newsspools - aha - > > noatime > Do not update inode access times on this file system (e.g, for > faster access on the news spool to speed up news servers). > > Maybe this would improve matters - I use IDE disk drives. Would this > cause problems ?
I've tried this with my biggest cache directory on ext2, and it has shown no improvement at all: bolte:~ # time find /var/spool/wwwoffle/http/www.heise.de -maxdepth 1 -type f > /dev/null real 2m12.757s user 0m0.500s sys 2m6.060s Christian -- Christian Knoke * * * http://www.cknoke.de * * * * * * * * * Ceterum censeo Microsoft esse dividendum.
