From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 7:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C20E37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15RwzB-000Lg0-00; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:28:33 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f71ESWM00856; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:28:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:28:32 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" Cc: Rasputin , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) Message-ID: <20010801152832.A828@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 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 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:11:18AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: | | | 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. Odd. Did you try searching for 'atime' and not 'access time' ? jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message