Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:11:18 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on BSD tweaks (daemonnews article) Message-ID: <3B680E06.8090701@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <20010801140842.A13836@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010801142428.A60605@shaft.techsupport.co.uk>
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Rasputin wrote: > * j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> [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
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