[PLUG] When tmpfs==good and ext3==bad :-)

[Russell Evans]

Mount the partition with noatime.

Thank you
Russell


On Wed, 14 May 2003 14:35:16 -0700 (PDT), Paul Heinlein said:

>  Obviously, a filesystem living in RAM is going to outperform one on 
>  disk, but I don't think that explains a 5x to 7x speed difference.
>  
>  It seems to me that the journaling overhead becomes unbearable on all
>  those little atomic db updates.