Hi,
I am trying to minimize the power consumption of my laptop when I take
it on the road (well, more precisely, the coffee shop.)
Here are a couple of changes I made in order to ease up the hard disk
usage:
The cron standard daily and standard maintenance task is running two
scripts that are taking half an hour off the battery life right away.
The first one is updatedb which I moved from daily to weekly. The second
one is checksecurity. I gave an extremely narrow search path both
scripts. Not only these scripts kill the battery, it looks like they may
also just kill the hard disk itself by running so much activity.
Regarding updatedb, I can live without having an up-to-the-minute
updated locate command. Regarding checksecurity, I am not sure how it
can really hurt when I am disconnected anyway.
The other thing I did was desactivating the xscreensaver pretty plugins
and just use the 'turn off screen' option from the APM instead.
End result: I get longer battery life. However, there is probably
something I missed that could help more in this direction. I would
appreciate if people on the list could post more hints in order to get
more juice off the hook. Thanks in advance,
LdS
