noatime automount

[Daniel Mons]

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Dale wrote:
> I have to agree with Bevin I have not noticed any performance
> difference, but what I have noticed on my laptop tho is having
> 'noatime' set on my HDD partitions it has helped lower the
> 'Load_Cycle_Count' on my HDD when on battery.

My focus is from server-side disk-intensive applications - databases,
multi-user file stores, etc, where noatime makes a measurable difference
both to load average and wallclock results of large database queries.

But the above brings up a good point: noatime should reduce the impact
on battery usage for single-user portable systems.  Performance wise it
probably won't give desktop users anything terribly exciting, but
certainly for notebook users it could extend battery life a touch.

- -Dan
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