Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:15:45 -0800 From: Zev Thompson <zev@interchange.ubc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: noatime switch on local mount Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020201041545.00f94078@pop.interchange.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020131185930.GA2520@raggedclown.net> References: <20020131191902.P68986@roman.mobil.cz> <5.1.0.14.0.20020131112513.00aa6c20@postoffice.swbell.net> <20020131191902.P68986@roman.mobil.cz>
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>> > Reading that atime update really isn't that big of a hit for casual systems >> > (expect for make world stuff) like mine but hey, never hurts to get a >> > little more performance out of my box :) >Well you can use it in "find" for whatever reason as well. >I should think any performance gain a small system might gain for it >would be infinitesimally small, and as noted above, it will break >new mail notification. I read a page of FreeBSD filesystem benchmarks a while back that showed the noatime flag to give a performance increase on the order of that gained by setting the async flag, or using softupdates. But as I can't find a link to it right now, I'm not willing to pretend I know it to be true. Zev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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