[syslog-ng] Trying to let my harddrive spin down once in a while

[Paul Krizak]

On 07/11/2011 04:27 PM, Paul Krizak wrote:
 > Since you probably wouldn't want to waste much RAM on that,
 > you should probably also combine that with some modified logrotate
 > configuration and run logrotate hourly instead of daily, to ensure you
 > don't fill up your ramdisk with log data.

Of course, note that simply running logrotate will likely generate some 
disk activity, since it, like all other applications on your system, 
will need to read libraries and configuration files from the hard disk...


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