Disabling atime

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Aug 10 15:45:00 UTC 2007


On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:26:02 +0530,
  Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
> 
> Looks like we get a good performance boost and only tmpwatch and mutt 
> with mbox seems to be affected. A simple patch to tmpwatch has been 
> posted on the same thread.

mutt can also use maildir format which has some advantages over mbox.
I don't know how commonly people using mutt use maildir instead of mbox
though.

> 
> Thoughts on disabling it?

I disable it on my machines, though I use a couple with slow disks and
not a lot of memory.




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