uness you've external reasons for caring about access time updates to your datafiles, I'd recommend turning it off so that you don't have the extra writes going to disk.
> > > I've recently come across references to setting > the "noatime" attribute to improve performance > of a Database server because Unix does not then > need to update the "last-access time" for each file. > > e.g. the Oracle for Linux tuning paper at > http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/techarticles/scalzo_linux01.html > also mentions this. > > Has anyone used this on Unix [Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Tru64] > servers ? > > Hemant K Chitale > http://hkchital.tripod.com > -- .- ... . -.-. .-. . - -- . ... ... .- --. . Craig I. Hagan hagan(at)cih.com "Capitalism is the uneven distribution of wealth, and socialism the even distribution of poverty." Winston S. Churchill -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Craig I. Hagan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
