From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 6: 8:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C14F37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15Rvjv-000BUU-00; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:08:43 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f71D8hu14017; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:08:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:08:42 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu Subject: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) Message-ID: <20010801140842.A13836@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the article in Daemonnews on tuning a BSD box for high performance, there were 2 miscellaneous tweaks mentioned. One was partition layout, and the other was turning on 'noatime' for most of the partitions. What partition layout strategies are suggested for servers? For workstations? I have noatime turned on for my root partition. What other partitions can use this setting for servers? And for workstations? Does it have any downside? jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message