Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

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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 ;)