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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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