in the july 2004 (Vol 6, Issue 7) Linux Magazine, Johathan Zdziarski writes:
"It's essential to shutdown syslog while on battery power, because as long as syslog is running, system messages will be written to disk..."
he goes on to mention that these services are good candidate to shutdown while running on battery: crond, autofs, cups, pcmcia, syslog. additionally he give many other ideas for mobile linux use.
if you do a
chkconfig --list
you can see what's running, do a little research, and determine which services you want to turn off while on battery. once you have you list, you can configure the apm or acpi (which ever you use) configuration scripts to do this for you. or just write up a little script to shut them down when you unplug. something like:
battery-mode
then the script does it's duty and you get to work longer...lol.
hope that helps...
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