[Popcon-developers] Bug#239939: popularity-contest: Should warn on install with noatime enabled
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:58:52PM -0800, Seth M LaForge wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.15
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It appears that popularity-contest relies on atime information, which
> means that if the partition containing /usr and /bin is mounted noatime,
> popularity-contest won't do much good. It's common to mount filesystems
> noatime in order to speed them up.
There has been a proposal to use acct when atime was disable. One of
my concern is that acct could cause more overhead than atime and is
obviously more painful to set up and use.
So part of the question is, if I were to implement acct support in
popcon, would you use it ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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