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). > Is there a way to better configure cron for a laptop usage? > - limit CPU usage ? > - start daily script only after an amount of cumulled (i'm not sure it's an > english word, i mean the sum of previous uptime) uptime. Put a huge delay in /etc/anacrontab, then use anacron -n when you actually want them to run, e.g. when making the coffee. Or write a script that runs anacron -n, sleeps a while and shuts down the laptop, and run it when you're finished computing but you're not going off to somewhere else. Or... whatever you can think of. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
