søn, 03.04.2005 kl. 19.45 skrev Thorsten Leemhuis: > Am Sonntag, den 03.04.2005, 12:59 -0400 schrieb Dan Williams: > > Furthermore, killing dumb > > cron jobs that run every day like 'updatedb' and 'makewhatis' would help make > > the desktop experience a hell of a lot better (geez, run them every 3 days and > > only when the machine has been idle for 5 minutes or something, and re-nice them > > really really really low so they don't screw over the user). > > Furthermore and more important imho: these cron jobs should not run when > you are working with you notebook on battery (iirc they currently still > do -- correct me if I'm wrong). They do. First indication of them running is everything getting really slow, and then the fan starts ;)