On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:51:33 GMT Tim Waugh wrote: > I only run mine for about 15-16 hours a day.
I guess that's pretty much what we would do. > It's all fine, they're built to be pretty resilient to that sort of thing. > I do see the completion ETA fluctuate wildly after switch-on, but really I > should stop staring at the stats and get on with work anyway :-) Thanks. > > BTW. What are the benefits of running these tools in a container as > > opposed to > > just installing them? > > Just convenience really. I don't like to install anything 'bare' on the > system and much prefer everything to be containerized, so that I know > exactly what's on it and can recreate it if needed. Speaking of which... For simplicity I think I'll do it bare, especially since I'd have to work out how to containerise the software on two Windows machines as well as this desktop. > Anyone who is not an ansible geek like me can stop reading here. :-) I'm not an ansible geek so I ignored the rest :-) Thanks for the info. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk