Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:03:50 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: syslog full of kernel BUGS, frequent intermittent instability |
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On Sat, 2003-03-01 14:55:58 +0000, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote in message <200303011455.h21EtwhU000402@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>: > > It's the mandrake default AFAIK. I don't know what all that stuff is, > > so I don't mess with it. My installation does "feel" bloated (very > > unscientific opinion): it "feels" much less responsive in the GUI > > /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > which you can change to > > /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults, noatime 1 1 you loose -----^
> This is a bit off-topic, but in my experience is about the best way to > increase performance on old, (and not so old), hardware, apart from > compiling a custom kernel. Without noatime, every time you read a > file, the current date and time is written to the disk. With noatime, > it's only recorded for a write. Almost no programs use the access > time data.
Except some email clients...
MfG, JBG
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