[ale] Disk performance

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

On 8/24/2013 21:59, Brian Mathis wrote:

>
> This wouldn't explain a sudden drop in performance, but make sure you have
> your partitions mounted using the "relatime" mount option.  One unfortunate
> problem with Linux is that it keeps track of every time a file is accessed,
> which means that every time you read a file, it causes a write back to the
> disk.
>
> Older kernels used the "noatime" option, but "relatime" is the modern
> incarnation of that.  The only caveat is if you are using backup software
> that relies on the access time, which I think is somewhat rare.  Using
> "relatime" should solve those problems though.

I had already checked into that and set it back to noatime just in case 
(thinking an update changed the defaults).  I don't really need access 
time anyway, just ctime and mtime.  Backups consist of find and scp. :)