Hello to all amd64 users,
there is a check in my /etc/cron.daily/apt script that uses
"on_ac_power" to find out if it's running on battery. It should _not_
start when on battery, I guess. Don't know if that runs as it should
do, I have a desktop.
Something different. There is a sleep command involved. So it takes a
long time to run but doesn't generate much fuzz on my system. Perhaps
it isn't red handed?
Ralf
Am 08.09.2009 um 13:42 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:
Hi all,
I would like to discuss and suggest the following thing:
On my 64-bit notebook I am using anacron and (of course) apt. In the
apt
package included is the file /etc/cron.daily/apt, which contents
some lines,
which are starting a find process. This find process initiated by
apt (and I
hope, I am right with this information of the initiation source)
consumes a
lot of harddrive actions for several minutes after boot, which makes
the
computer at this time rather slow.
Of course, it is one of the processes started by anacron.
IMO this is an annoying situation for notebook users, as sepeciela ,
when you
just want to start, wanted to do some things quickly, and then
shutting down
again - just as many notebook users do!
My suggestion to this problem are these:
1. delete /etc/cron.daily/apt manually
O.k., this can be easily done, but how necessary is this file at all?
2. If this file is not very necessary do not put /etc/cron.daily/apt
into the
apt-package, but maybe it should be put into some other package (for
example
cron-apt), or , another opportunity, as a standalone package.
3. put this file to cron.monthly or cron.weekly, or, let it start
manually
somehow (this third option was just a thought)
What do you think? Is there a way and a chance, to improve things? Any
feedback will be very welcome.
Best wishes
Hans-J. Ullrich
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