Keaton Adams wrote: > After reading several articles on the performance drag that Linux atime > has on file systems we would like to mount our DB volumes with the > noatime parameter to see just what type of a performance gain we will > achieve. Does PostgreSQL use atime in any way when reading/writing > data? If we turn off/disable atime on the DB volumes will that cause > any type of issue at all with PostgreSQL 8.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? No, it shouldn't cause any issues. Just turn it off. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
