Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:18 +0200, Michael Roberts wrote:
> 2009/6/8 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > All,
> > There is a discussion on factory currently that the mount option
> > "relatime" can be used to accelerate application launch, etc.  (note
> > that relatime is NOT a typo, just a fairly new mount option.)
> > And that the 2.6.30 kernel now uses it by default, so it should be pretty 
> > safe.
> > I don't know if it is available in the standard 11.1 kernel, but looks
> > like it is worth investigating.
> > Someone feel like doing some tests?
> relatime is also in the man page for mount on 11.0. I have just made
> this change and rebooted, and my first impression is good. Firefox was
> taking forever to start up with lots of disk thrashing and now it
> starts up quietly in one or two seconds. I will leave it like this and
> post again if I notice any problems.

The original Linux commentary is here <http://lwn.net/Articles/244830/>,
it is pretty emphatic. For something like a Cyrus mail store the
difference between atime and noatime can be awesome.

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