On Friday 14 May 2010 11:37:19 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2010, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> > There *has* to be a better way to clean an HTTP cache than to stat every
> > single file in the cache to then delete a tiny fraction of them. Someone
> > told me 4.4 improved in this area, but I don't know specifics, and remain
> > skeptical.
> 
> If stat updates the files' atime, you may get a lot better performance by
> simply mounting the relevant partition with relatime or noatime (which for
> some reason is still not default).

noatime "breaks" a few applications.  I recommend against it.

I've not seen similar issues with relatime, although it is theoretically 
possible.  I mount using relatime, normally.
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