On 28-Feb-2001 David Wright wrote: > Quoting christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I use potato on a laptop and my laptop is on only when i'm using it. >> When I start, cron launches various task (too many at the same time) and >> take a big part of the CPU. >> >> It's crazy : you turn your computer 2 minutes on (you do near nothing), cron >> works. After a night you turn on your laptop another time (no big changes >> has occured during the last session) and cron restart everything. > > Sounds more like anacron, unless you turn on your laptop at exactly the > same time each day (about 07:30). >
recent versions of anacron in unstable will now only run cron jobs when you are connected to wall power. This should hopefully help as well.
