This test does not say nothing, because only access time of /var/spool/wwwoffle/http/www.heise.de directory will be affected. Try recursive fetching of, say, lasttime index with wget, for example.
Juraj On Tuesday 09 September 2003 13:11, Christian Knoke wrote: > 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
