Ubuntu
cron package

Cron jobs should be suppressed on battery power

Bug #60151 reported by John Dong
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cron (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
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Bug Description

Cron jobs should not run when a laptop is on battery power, at least not the housekeeping ones (i.e. updatedb, mandb, beagle-crawl-filesystem, etc) -- they typically put quite a bit of load on the CPU and IO systems, leading to dramatically decreased battery life.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

Thanks for your report. Your idea might get more attention and have
the possibility of being implemented if you would submit a
specification for this.

You should first check whether it already exists at the Ubuntu specs
page (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) in Launchpad. If
that is the case, feel free to contact the drafter of that spec about
your comments/suggestions. Otherwise you can start writing a spec
following the steps described in
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications.

Changed in cron:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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