From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 20:17:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFACF16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 20:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC1043D49 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 20:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F12769A71; Thu, 20 May 2004 23:17:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40AD74BD.8030005@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:17:17 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Norberto Meijome References: <40AD72CF.6010201@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <40AD72CF.6010201@meijome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling atime updates... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 03:17:23 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi, > I'm plan to disable atime updates in some Web + MySQL servers (to get a > bit more performance, even if insignificant). > > Is there any OS, Apache or MySQL feature that would be affected by > setting noatime in fstab? ( I couldn't find any reference, even man 8 > mount says it's hardly ever used) I think you've got a greenlight here. I've seen lots of people use noatime, and I've never heard of anyone having trouble. I'm sort of surprised that noatime isn't the default ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com