uness you've external reasons for caring about access time updates to your
datafiles, I'd recommend turning it off so that you don't have the extra writes
going to disk.
>
>
> I've recently come across references to setting
> the "noatime" attribute to improve performance
> of a Database server because Unix does not then
> need to update the "last-access time" for each file.
>
> e.g. the Oracle for Linux tuning paper at
> http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/techarticles/scalzo_linux01.html
> also mentions this.
>
> Has anyone used this on Unix [Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Tru64]
> servers ?
>
> Hemant K Chitale
> http://hkchital.tripod.com
>
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