

Re: Disabling atime

Benjamin Lewis wrote:

The majority of people will see a performance boost they will
appreciate regardless of whether they know about atime or not.
number of files they access, either with automated build procedures or
keep their directory trees sparse and don't venture out of their home
directory in a GUI much will probably not know the difference except

In my experience, viewing a folder of images as thumbnails is
significantly slower with atime.

Are you sure that your viewer didn't cache the thumbnail images on the first run so you were timing something different after changing the option?

Many users will be viewing folders of

Some users will, some won't. The atime change should be going though the disk write cache and thus only have a real-time hit when there is enough disk activity that the cache writes conflict with read operations.

  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell gmail com
