From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 7:19:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from imr2.ericy.com (imr2.ericy.com [12.34.240.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555A437B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr6.exu.ericsson.se (mr6att.ericy.com [138.85.92.14]) by imr2.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71EBQ513387; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:11:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr6.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71EBPb27678; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:11:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f71EBOA17880; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:11:24 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QBWKFLRG; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:11:18 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: Rasputin Cc: j mckitrick , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B680E06.8090701@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:11:18 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010717 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) References: <20010801140842.A13836@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010801142428.A60605@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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"?? And the tuning(7) manpage on my -stable system doesn't mention this. A. -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message