This reminds me of setting noatime for disk mounts (http://askubuntu.com/questions/2099/is-it-worth-to-tune-ext4-with-noatime http://askubuntu.com/questions/209

This reminds me of setting noatime for disk mounts (http://askubuntu.com/questions/2099/is-it-worth-to-tune-ext4-with-noatime http://askubuntu.com/questions/2099/is-it-worth-to-tune-ext4...) Now I want to know the number of other configs to reduce the number of system calls. This all adds up to being significant the greater the number of hosts in your environment.