From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 8:28:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AEF937B403 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@shaft.techsupport.co.uk) Received: from rasputin by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Ry1g-000FqX-00; Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:35:12 +0100 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:35:12 +0100 From: Rasputin To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) Message-ID: <20010801163512.A60895@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010801140842.A13836@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010801142428.A60605@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <3B680E06.8090701@lmc.ericsson.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B680E06.8090701@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:11:18AM -0400 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 * Antoine Beaupre (LMC) [010801 15:20]: > > > Rasputin wrote: > > * j mckitrick [010801 14:17]: > > > >>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? > >> > > > > I think 'man tuning' says that noatime can mess up applications > > that use the modification time in their logic. > > (I wouldn't put it on /var, but that's mainly superstition) > > Err... Isn't "atime" -> "access time"?? Yeah, you know what I mean. Anyway, if your apps depend on atime, they can go screwy. > And the tuning(7) manpage on my -stable system doesn't mention this. Then you should cvsup. -- If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message