Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:21:23PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> 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,
At the risk of living a little more dangerously, you could try running
noflushd (just "apt-get install noflushd") and mounting your disk's
filesystems with the "noatime" option in /etc/fstab. But I've only
done this on an i386 laptop myself.
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Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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