Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Ingo Molnar
2007-08-05T18:10:19Z

* Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> > yeah, i didnt mean to say that it is _always_ a big issue, but "only
> > a small number of files are read" is a very, very small minority of
> > even the database server world.
>
> OTOH, consider a popular Linux task, web serving. atime results in a
> lot of unnecessary disk traffic.

it's a big, noticeable effect on 99% of the Linux boxes.

Ingo