We use noatime on our production database without issues. On 8/28/07, Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In response to "Keaton Adams" <kadams@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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? > > I frequently run with noatime and have never noticed any problems. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
