[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?



Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:

> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 
> > does cron not check /etc/cron.d often?  i know you can drop files in
> > there and cron will use them without restarting it so it must check
> > this somehow...
> 
> According to the manpage it does so every minute, and I haven't found a way
> around this so it could be the showstopper.

If you mount with 'noatime', this should not cause a problem--cron.d
and its files will live in cache, and you'll never hit the disk.

-Doug



Reply to: