Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:33:15 -0800 (PST) From: mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout Message-ID: <20030324083315.23176.qmail@web13802.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:18:03 -0800 (PST) > From: mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout > To: David Fleck <dcf@aracnet.com> > > > I'm not sure what is involved in putting the > > *system* into standby, as > > compared to just the monitor - Linux distros > usually > > provide a utility > > called 'hdparm' to set spin-down and sleep times > for > > IDE drives, don't > > know if theres a SCSI equivalent. I haven't found > a > > similar utility in > > FreeBSD - possibly one of the tunables mentioned > in > > 'man ata' or 'man > > tuning' would do it, I haven't looked very hard. > > well... i'm definately no expert on the subject, but > I > think 'apm -s' and 'apm -S' actually turn off, > disable, or throttle the CPU and PCI cards (and > possibly also spinning down the disks, though I > don't > think that this is covered by 'apm'). 'apm' does > this > by engaging BIOS level features. (also, when my > machine is in standby, an orange light in my case > comes on.) i guess it's not so much that this > feature > (auto standby after idle period) is so vital for me, > as it is that linux and windows enable this feature, > and i mostly just don't want to feel that freebsd is > not allowing me to use all the features my hardware > offers. > > i read that sleepd for linux detects system idleness > by monitoring the keyboard and ps2 mouse interrupts. > > btw, 'camcontrol' lets you spin down SCSI drives in > freebsd, but i don't know about IDE. > > > -- > > David Fleck > > dcf@aracnet.com > > > > mike > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, > live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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