Sunday, December 15, 2002, 11:43:28 PM, Cameron wrote: CS> On 21:30 15 Dec 2002, U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CS> | The reason I'm looking for performance tuning is my hardware :) I have CS> | some very old hardware [...] CS> | [...] CS> | How and where do I turn off reverse-lookups in Redhat?
CS> It's probably not a single switch, but per-app/service. CS> It will not add any load to your system. CS> Which particular reverse lookups are causing you trouble? Oh ok, for a moment I thought RH did some reverse lookups, sorry about that :) CS> | Adding a "-" in the syslog.conf? Huh where do you find information on CS> | this?? What is this, and what does it do? CS> "man syslog.conf" should say. Yes I found it now (somehow I missed it before), but should I have a space between the "-" and the rest of the line or not? I'm asking just because I don't know if I would break anything if I just tried, and I also would not know if it worked (don't know how to test if it helped). CS> | man mount gives me this: CS> | CS> | noatime Do not update inode access times on this file system CS> | (e.g, for faster access on the news spool to speed up CS> | news servers). CS> | CS> | This sounds greath, but it does not say if there is any trade offs. CS> | I'm absolutely no filesystem expert, so please explain it to me :) CS> About the only thing this will affect is mail notification. Most Bifflike CS> programs poll your mailbox file (/var/spool/mail/your-login) regularly, CS> and if the modify time is more recent than the access time infers that CS> you have new email. CS> In short, you won't miss this at all. I run with noatime active on most CS> things. noatime added, thanks :) Best regards Søren -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
