Re: using Ramdisk

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, M Watts <address@hidden> 
writes
> Whether you use ramdisks or not, you can increase harddisk performance 
> by enabling the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab.  Whenever you read a 
> file, you system also performs a writing operation, to store the time 
> of last access.  Disable this by opening /etc/fstab, look for you root 
> filesystem, and change where it says 'defaults' to 'defaults,noatime', 
> then reboot and enjoy faster computing.

WARNING!

I think some things (notably source control) depend on atime so be 
careful.

Cheers,
Wol
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