nate wrote: > Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > >> But in a production db server, which is backed up by HP DP, is it >> advisable to mount with noatime? >> > > noatime typically helps when dealing with lots of files, most DB servers > have a small number of files that are large in size, so noatime is > likely not to provide any noticeable improvement I think. > > nate > I do not agree - every read of the db will update the filesystem with noatime missing, thus specifying noatime does give performance improvements - the size of the files does not matter as much - rather the number of reads vs writes. just my $0.02 worth > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100203/b9a5beae/attachment-0005.vcf>