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.
