søn, 03.04.2005 kl. 19.45 skrev Thorsten Leemhuis:
Am Sonntag, den 03.04.2005, 12:59 -0400 schrieb Dan Williams:
> Furthermore, killing dumb
> cron jobs that run every day like 'updatedb' and 'makewhatis' would
help make
> the desktop experience a hell of a lot better (geez, run them every 3 days and
> only when the machine has been idle for 5 minutes or something, and re-nice them
> really really really low so they don't screw over the user).
Furthermore and more important imho: these cron jobs should not run when
you are working with you notebook on battery (iirc they currently still
do -- correct me if I'm wrong).
They do. First indication of them running is everything getting really
slow, and then the fan starts ;)