Re: [opensuse] tuning tweak from factory

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:18 +0200, Michael Roberts wrote:

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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

2009/6/8 Greg Freemyer : 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org