On Mon, 17 May 2010, Matt Domsch wrote: > Now that I've knocked out a few MM bugs, other interesting trends are > emerging. > > Why are the app* servers running all these in cron.daily? The > combination of these take approximately 2 hours, and show up very > noticibly on the collectd graphs. I'm not sure which ones are the > most IO-intensive for that duration - I haven't caught it during the > run to watch. > > logrotate - arguably necessary, unless this is done centrally instead? > > makewhatis.cron - we don't have many manpages on the app servers, and > don't change them that often. Daily? Really? > > prelink - we don't start apps that often - they're mostly > long-running. > > rkhunter - arguably necessary > > rpm - again, daily? Unclear what this serves us. It's just a file > listing all the RPMs installed at that moment in time. > > tetex.cron - looks like it'd go fast, so no big deal. But why do we > have tetex-fonts installed on the app servers? > > tmpwatch - good to have > > Something to consider revising after the freeze? > I agree with all of the above assessments. -Mike _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
