using RAM for swap

[Peter Radcliffe]

Chris BeHanna <behanna at zbzoom.net> probably said:
>     That's one way, and it's good.  Another way would be to stuff
> /var/log/cron into mfs somehow.  cron is the single biggest reason why
> your disk would wake up (atrun goes off every few minutes, and cron
> wakes up once a second).

I disable atrun on my laptop for just that reason. I never use it
there anyway.

P.

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