From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 23 19:23:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF9837B43C for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b038.otenet.gr [195.167.121.166]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8O2NVF18739; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:23:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8O2NVC02395; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:23:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:23:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: murray@stokely.org Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30675: `noatime' should be discouraged on /var as well Message-ID: <20010924052330.F1510@hades.hell.gr> References: <200109240200.f8O202M57176@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200109240200.f8O202M57176@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org murray@stokely.org wrote: > > Subject: Re: docs/30675: `noatime' should be discouraged on /var as well > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:50:24 -0700 > > .. So, can someone provide an example sentence or two that they would > like to add to tuning(7)? A diff would be even better. Something like the following patch maybe? -giorgos --- patch-tuning begins here --- Index: tuning.7 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man7/tuning.7,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 tuning.7 --- tuning.7 17 Sep 2001 03:49:51 -0000 1.16 +++ tuning.7 24 Sep 2001 02:21:25 -0000 @@ -211,8 +211,11 @@ creating a burden on the system. For example, if you are running a heavily loaded web site, or a news server with lots of readers, you might want to consider turning off atime updates on your larger partitions with this -mount option. Do not gratuitously turn off atime updates everywhere.. for -example, you might as well leave them turned on for mostly read-only +mount option. Do not gratuitously turn off atime updates everywhere.. +You should definitely avoid turning atime updates off for your /var +filesystem, since /var customarily holds mailboxes, and atime (in combination +with mtime) is used to determine whether a mailbox has new mail. +You might as well leave them turned on for mostly read-only partitions such as / and /usr (especially for / since some system utilities use the atime field for reporting). .Sh STRIPING DISKS --- patch-tuning ends here --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message