Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> what about the 'noatime' flag on a hard drive. it stops each file read being recorded on the disk. you just add noatime to your /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hda12      /               ext3    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> 
> i haven't had any problems with it, although its been suggested that it might make data harder to recover in a crash  (what are back ups for).
> 
> sam

Hi Sam,

Yes, I have added the noatime option in my fstab 3 month ago, to try and
keep disc activity to a minimum, as I can not stand the noise the heads
make when accessing data, no matter how quiet...

Vince