Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes

["Gavin M. Roy" <gmr(at)myyearbook(dot)com>]

We use noatime on our production database without issues.

On 8/28/07, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> wrote:
> In response to "Keaton Adams" <kadams(at)mxlogic(dot)com>:
>
> > 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.
>
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