On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me it still boggles the mind that noatime should actually slow down > activities on ANY file-system ... has someone got an explanation for > that kind of behaviour? As far as I'm concerned this means that even > to any read I'll add the overhead of a write - most likely in a disk-location > slightly off of the position that I read the data ... how would that speed > the process up on average?
noatime turns off the atime write behaviour. Or did you already know that and I missed some weird post where noatime somehow managed to slow down performance? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance