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nice article, I think I

Hassan Ibraheem — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:36:47 +0100

nice article, I think I have a collection of tweaks now for both my desktop and laptop
thanks

Does noatime work? Yes, but

tbuitenh — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:10:01 +0100

Does noatime work? Yes, but whether or not it will work so much that it will be noticable depends on how you use your computer. Especially tasks in which many files are read should be noticably faster (for example starting gimp).

I use the noatime optimization. It's harmless (except MAYBE not if you use the mutt email program), so why not? I didn't run any tests, and I tweak my system to be both faster and less power hungry all the time, so I couldn't say with confidence if my speed gains were from noatime or something else.

If you're interested in improving desktop performance, you will probably like this article

finally

Hassan Ibraheem — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:39:31 +0100

I'm using ubuntu on my laptop and it sometimes gets annoying, but I always forget to look it up on how to stop it from checking, and finally I find it here while I'm not looking
thanks
by the way, I read that the "noatime" option speed up accessing the hard disk for not writing the time every individual file was accessed.. is that true ? in other words.. is it worthy to add this option ?

AFAIK there is no such

tbuitenh — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:25:54 +0200

AFAIK there is no such configuration file for such settings, they are stored in a data structure that is invisible to regular programs. When a filesystem is to be checked could in principle be written in a file in that same filesystem, but it's not a very good idea: what if this file is deleted by mistake or incorrectly formatted information is written to it? Check the filesystem because a problem with the configuration file could mean data corruption? Don't check at all? Revert to some default behavior? Refuse to boot?

If you look at the man pages of tune2fs and mke2fs, you'll see lots of options that could cause even more odd chicken-and-egg situations if they were configured through a file.

Great tip! In Ubuntu it's

libervisco — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:18:10 +0200

Great tip! In Ubuntu it's set to a certain number of boots if I remember right, and it didn't bother me much, but if it starts to, I'm gonna set it to one month..

Btw, is there a configuration file somewhere which stores these values?

Thanks