Greetings, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:03 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > Rob Kampen wrote: > > For DB performance there's a lot more useful areas to spend time > tuning. As DBAs often say you can get 10% more performance tuning > the OS and getting better hardware, and you can get 1000% better > performance by tuning the queries and data structures, or something > like that :) Thanks Akemi, James, Nate, Les and Rob for the replies and lively discussion. For time being till I am convinced that HP DataProtect does not need atime, I will have to leave them on. Of course, I have noatime for non-critical systems as my usual practice. Regards, Rajagopal