From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Bit Twister wrote:   
   > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:17:35 -0400, Adam wrote:   
      
   >>> That is with MSEC hourly jobs   
   [...]   
   > There are a few tests which you get to choose how often you want them   
   executed.   
   > I was just showing normal load.   
      
   I think I did something like that for a while.  I still have the daemons   
   for 'sensors' and 'hddtemp' running, and use   
      
   alias sensorcheck='zgrep -E "eris (sensor|hddtemp)" /var/log/syslog* |   
   cut -d : -f 5- | sort -u | less'   
      
   to check on those once in a while ("eris" is the name of this box (the   
   old one).  It was interesting to see the changes when I replaced the PS.   
      
   [hot backup of production install]   
      
   >> 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 need to look into rsync.  My backup scripts copy all files in selected   
   directories.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Yeah, for something that only runs once an hour, speed isn't so   
   critical.  OTOH many things I use need to access something in /accounts.   
     BTW I just read that using a firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey user   
   profile that's on a tmpfs results in a considerable performance   
   improvement.  I'll look into that later.   
      
   > Browsing accounts do not need a whole lot of bin/* files for operation   
   > so speed is not critical.   
   [...]   
   > 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. :)   
      
   Excellent point.  When trying to improve performance, work on the things   
   that would benefit most from it.  The slogan "How important is it?"   
   applies here too.   
      
   Thanks again for your very relevant and helpful advice!   
      
   Adam   
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