Re: increase performancr with "noatime"?

>>>>> "AS" == Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:

AS> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:12:48PM +0800, JM wrote:
>> would it cause problem in postgres DB if /var/lib/psql partition is mounted
>> with "noatime"?

AS> No; in fact, that's been suggested by many people.  I don't know
AS> whether anyone's done any tests to prove that it helps.

I honestly can't expect it to be much of an improvement since the
number of files involved compared with the size of the files is
minimal.  However, if you're opening/closing the files often it might
cause you problems.  I think in the normal case where it does matter
you have pooled connections so the open/close happens rarely.

Of course, if I had a good synthetic workload to pound on my DB, I'd
run a test... Sean?

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