Beeing fairly new to Linux I found the article interesting - and tried. With success I would say. I cannot provide statistics as I have no idea on how to provide such tests, but I feel I don't need to. I'm an amateur photographer and use Bibble as my photo editing software. All my pictures are shot in RAW (approx. 5 mb pr. file) and I store between 200 and 500 files in each folder. What I noticed is that the loading of thumbnails (cached and not-cached) is way faster when noatime-option is activated (/etc/fstab + reboot). If I would make a guess I would say around 50% of the time is needed in order to provide the thumbnails and some 75% for single picture rendering. Although I cannot confirm my "numbers" it's a clear and noticeable performance boost. Regular browsing yielded no noticeable result as to speed, but the temperature of my laptop seems a tad cooler (although I admit that might as well be my imagination).
Nevertheless; Bibble + RAW + lots of files in combo with noatime gave performance boost. No doubt!
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Give the peace price early in order to make it more difficult, politicaly, to bomb later.
... so that by the time the 10th version of Windows is about to get replaced by the next, Microsoft is pleaing for bankruptcy protection?
Fart'n'Go? Or rather Bring'yer-own-kind-of-rebate?
or WHACMAN? Windows Home Application Customization MANager. Let WHACMAN wreak havoc ... ehm ... add and remove yer software ... ;)
Beeing fairly new to Linux I found the article interesting - and tried. With success I would say. I cannot provide statistics as I have no idea on how to provide such tests, but I feel I don't need to. I'm an amateur photographer and use Bibble as my photo editing software. All my pictures are shot in RAW (approx. 5 mb pr. file) and I store between 200 and 500 files in each folder. What I noticed is that the loading of thumbnails (cached and not-cached) is way faster when noatime-option is activated (/etc/fstab + reboot). If I would make a guess I would say around 50% of the time is needed in order to provide the thumbnails and some 75% for single picture rendering. Although I cannot confirm my "numbers" it's a clear and noticeable performance boost. Regular browsing yielded no noticeable result as to speed, but the temperature of my laptop seems a tad cooler (although I admit that might as well be my imagination). Nevertheless; Bibble + RAW + lots of files in combo with noatime gave performance boost. No doubt!