Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Kevin Kadow wrote on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:40:13PM -0600:
and also like his suggestion to check 'apm' and not launch housekeeping
tasks when solely on battery power.
I fear that's not an option. The apm(8) utility uses the apm(4) device
which is limited to i386, AMD64, Zaurus and MacPPC. I wouldn't like
cluttering the system maintenance scripts with architecture-dependent
stuff, unless there are *very* strong reasons to do so.
I'm neither excited about any of the solutions proposed in this thread -
perhaps except that nick@'s disknice looks attractive, but i have no
idea whether and how that could be done - nor am i happy with the current
situation, so i consider tedu@'s question unanswered. I'm not even sure
there is a good solution at all: Jan Stary and Jonathan Thornburg have
presented strong arguments indicating that "run it manually at the time
you want it" might be the best answer.
And for my mind it is. Just don't add automatics where it's needless.
Stas
