--=-xok/H6gy6zdaH8LTW/lY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 14:44, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 02:07, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >=20 > <snip> >=20 > > Mounting your filesystems with noatime is a good start; this > > prevents read accesses to files from causing the last accessed time > > from being updated, which is a cause of many disk writes. =20 >=20 > Do you do this routinely, for both AC & battery operation? Or do you > remount with this parameter only when heading off the mains power? >=20 > There's a lot going on in the system, and I'm new at this, so I wonder > about potential inconsistencies. Are there any concerns, or is this > quite transparent? I assume you've thought (and/or experienced) your > way through these issues. The only time I ever ran into a problem mounting with 'noatime' is with /var/spool/mail and Mutt (and possibly other MUAs). Another thing you can do is change syslog to not call fsync() after every log message by prepending a '-' to the log file name in syslog.conf. This is a reasonable thing to do for a laptop, but not a server. =20 Wil --=20 Wil Cooley wcooley@nakedape.cc Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * * QCSNet http://www.qcsn.com * * * * T1, Frame Relay, DSL, Dial-up, and Web Hosting * * * * --=-xok/H6gy6zdaH8LTW/lY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9ZcDTJpn3uYWUEaoRAgx1AKCYRZlcExDkvCAA26C9TSpfFb9lcgCgiVJE hdTgejUK4ofdncKMz8vV7wc= =EfTC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xok/H6gy6zdaH8LTW/lY--
