When i mentioned this to our hosting company they actually agreed with us, and went further and said, that we should use something called realtime, but the kernel version we have with CentOS does not support it, so they used noatime. They did not have to reboot , they did a mount -o /partition_name Not sure of the performance increase, but I am sure it helps a bit.... :) Thanks guys! Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Millikan [mailto:gmillikan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:14 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Apache 2.x configuration for high load servers > I will mod fstab and reboot one server at a time... I thought there was a way of dropping atime in real time without a reboot so you can test performance differences without rebooting but I could be mistaken. Might want to check out using relatime but I have no experience with that. I do know that doing noatime helped our performance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx