Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes
Date
Msg-id 526.1188323217@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes  ("Keaton Adams" <kadams@mxlogic.com>)
List pgsql-general
"Keaton Adams" <kadams@mxlogic.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

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: 8.1.10 release?
Next
From: Magnus Hagander
Date:
Subject: Re: Turning off atime on PostgreSQL DB volumes