Laptop battery

[Sam Tygier]

have a look in /usr/share/doc/laptop-mode/ for its explantion. ( you can read .txt.gz files with zless laptop-mode.txt.gz )

does anyone know if it is possible / sensible to diable some logging to make this work better? or a way to make firefox keep everything in ram? browsing the web should not really require any hard drive access.

also, putting stacks of ram in the machine and diabling swap might help.

sam

heimo wrote:
> What you want is laptop-mode (it's in universe, you need that in
> /etc/apt/sources.list)
> http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories
> (lots of other good advice there too!)
> 
> 
> Code:
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>     sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools
> --------------------
>  
> 
> If you have ACPI enabled in laptops BIOS, this should be able to spin
> down your laptops hard disk and do writes in batches. This approach has
> caveats - you risk losing some data if you lose power / crash or
> something like that. You need to read 
> Code:
> --------------------
>     man laptop_mode
> --------------------
>  I don't know if it enables itself, so 
> Code:
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>     sudo /etc/init.d/laptop-mode start
> --------------------
>  may be neccessary.
> 
> Don't hesitate to ask for more help, if neccessary.
> 
> EDIT: added -sudo
> 
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