Supercharge Your Linux Laptop’s Battery Life With Ramlog
Want to squeeze a little more life out of your Linux laptop battery? Ramlog may be what you’ve been looking for.
Linux systems often write a lot of log files to disk; it’s great for debugging application crashes and all sorts of other problems, but it has a cost — writing files to disk means spinning up your hard drive and using precious battery power.
Ramlog essentially just moves all the log info into a fixed-size chunk of RAM for your session and then dumps them to the hard drive when you shut down. Obviously that would be bad for something like a server, where logs are very important, but in the case of laptop you might be able to buy some extra battery life.
Of course how useful Ramlog is depend somewhat on your setup. Many Linux configurations don’t write enough log files to make it a big deal, but if you’re not terrible concerned about log files anyway, Ramlog might be worth a shot.
You can grab both .rmp and .deb versions from the Ramlog site for easy installation on Ubuntu or Fedora, as well as the source for a custom installation. I just installed Ramlog so I can’t attest to longer battery life just yet, but if you’re a fan be sure to let us know about your experience.
[via Lifehacker]
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