Extending Battery Life

Tips For Extending Linux Battery Life

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• mount file systems with the noatime option:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1

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• turn off atd, and run at once per hour out of /etc/crontab

00 * * * * root [ -x /usr/sbin/atrun ] && /usr/sbin/atrun

• make syslog lazy about committing to its file by prefixing the filename with a -

*.info                  -/var/log/messages

• configure /etc/cpuspeed.conf, if supported

VMAJOR=1
VMINOR=1
#OPTS="-i 2"
#DRIVER="powernow-k7"
OPTS="-a /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state -t /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature 75"