Re: Linux and Squid :

on 21/12/99 8:34 AM, Clifton Royston at cliftonr@lava.net wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:51:58AM +0200, Andreas Skilitsis wrote:
>>>> Can someone enlighten me on this one ??
>>>
>>> noatime
>>>
>>> Filesystems are usually mounted thru /etc/fstab. One of the columns in
>>> fstab is the mount options to use (usually says only default). Put
>>> noatime there and remount your cache partition.
>>
>> You mentioned this... as a reply to someone. I'm using pretty much
>> the same system... so I was wondering what this does and if I should
>> do it too...
>
> You should definitely do this for file systems used for things like
> squid and news (Usenet) which are accessed heavily and are not read by
> normal users.
>
> Normally UNIX saves the access time in the directory when any file in
> that directory is accessed. "noatime", in UNIX versions which support
> it, turns that feature off and can save a tremendous number of
> directory updates, hence reduce disk writes, hence increase
> performance.
>
> -- Clifton

is this relevant to most flavours of UNIX??

what about FreeBSD??

Cheers :-)

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