[ale] nodiratime

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 22:33:54 EDT 2007


I'm interested in what sort of tests you've done, and their results,
as to determine improvement.

On 3/27/07, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been using noatime for years when setting up systems.  Today I just
> saw a reference to nodiratime and have implemented on some boxes which
> seems to improve some system metrics.   So.... how come nodiratime isn't
> really documented well anywhere?   Also, has anyone ever seen any side
> affects from using it?
>
> -Jim P.

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