On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dave Keck <davekeck@gmail.com> wrote:
Since this should be asynchronous, I'd be surprised if this is causing a significant performance degradation...
Thanks Shantonu! -- it was indeed updating the access time.
Is there a supported way to prevent my process from updating the access time? My initial benchmarks show a 28% performance increase in processing 4000 photos (82 seconds before, 64 seconds after).
Not your process, but you can at the filesystem mount level: http://oroyphoto.com/2010/11/12/mac-os-x-noatime-settings-for-10-6/ -Tilghman _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com