On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:55:24PM BST, Adam Borowski wrote: > Not on a laptop or any machine that has to conserve power and avoid > unnecessary wakeups / disk spin-ups.
Or any device with an SSD or SD card (more and more popular net-tops nowadays). > A cronjob every 5 minutes means you need to start up the process, which adds > quite a bit of churn. Worse, it will spam the logs, and since at least > auth.log is fsync()ed after every write, it needs to spin up the disk. This is the reason why I got rid of DMA on my systems, the defaults - cron job and unnecessary entries in the logs. Other than that I don't really have anything else against it. If those two get fixed it could be a sane default MTA (IMHO). Cheers, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120430171517.ga3...@linuxstuff.pl
