Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Keaton Adams" <kadams(at)mxlogic(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes
Date: 2007-08-28 17:46:57
Message-ID: 526.1188323217@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Keaton Adams" <kadams(at)mxlogic(dot)com> writes:
> 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?

No --- go for it, and let us know what you see.

regards, tom lane

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