From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:17:35 -0400, Adam wrote:   
   > Bit Twister wrote:   
   >   
   > I'll have to look it up... I thought /dev/shm was similar to a tempfs,   
   > not an SSD.   
      
   My bad. I was thinking ssd finite writes.   
      
   >> That is with MSEC hourly jobs   
   >   
   > Are any of those security-related?  What do those do?   
      
   There are a few tests which you get to choose how often you want them executed.   
   I was just showing normal load. Peak load was a little after 4am when the   
   majority of the MSEC tests were preformed.   
      
      
   > IOW it's not automated, and only happens when you request it.  That   
   > makes sense; I think I'll implement that too.   
      
   For me, tt is nothing more than booting the previous release and running an   
   rsync. It usually runs pretty fast if you only updated 20 or so rpms.   
      
      
   > I gather the 1024-cylinder limit for /boot is long gone.  I'm planning   
   > things so /accounts isn't _too_ far from any root partition I'd use   
   > regularly.   
      
   That is an activity driven decision. Mine is towards the back of drive.   
   Since most are just email accounts, their cron jobs run once an hour   
   then root hourly cron gives me an xmessage pop up with account names containg   
   mail in /var/spool/mail.   
      
   Browsing accounts do not need a whole lot of bin/* files for operation   
   so speed is not critical. I can click the surfing desktop icon which   
   will do a /local/bin/xsurf which jumps to desktop 4, checks if surf's   
   firefox is running, and if not, "sudo su - surf" which logs in and   
   launches firefox.  Worse case is 2 seconds later I am viewing my local   
   web page of links I check for news and whatnot.   
      
   My need for speed is desktop/application launch or game response.   
   Those would be from /. Since /home is in /, drive  heads are already   
   close enough. :)   
      
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