Re: RAM disk options for perl cron job

2006-05-13 Thread Joel Rees
On 2006.5.13, at 01:20 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote: I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook, and it runs a dynamic DNS client every ten minutes via cron. That basically keeps the disk spinning constantly. Burned out a drive last year, and I'm worried it will burn out a drive this

Re: RAM disk options for perl cron job

2006-05-13 Thread Joseph Alotta
Hi Chris, Why wouldn't it work to put the client code and perl on the USB keydrive and then every ten minutes, your system will get it from there instead of from your hard drive? I realize the USB keydrive is slower to load, but does that matter here? Definitely a thought. I only write