Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:40:15 +0200,Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (I delete most the thread) > > > But of course, I understand that this depends on personal usage and needs, > > and I am willing to do what is possible to optimize the daemon performance. > > > I understand the logic, and thank you for the detailed explanation. The > problem for me are laptops: cron will not do, and with anacron I think it > is just not possible to set it so that anacron runs right at the time when > the machine is on, but I am not using it too much (when I go for coffee is > too much of a random event ;-). Understood, I'm always forgetting about laptops. I hope to be able to improve at least the purge memory usage, and hopefuly ionice will solve the io contention issue. jf