From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 27 07:50:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16787 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 07:50:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16781 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 07:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA04271; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:50:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA29107; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:50:43 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:50:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199803271550.IAA29107@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cory Kempf Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM: Too tired to keep working?! In-Reply-To: References: <199803270543.QAA01710@cimlogic.com.au> <4914.890976564@time.cdrom.com> <19980327094710.25740@deepo.prosa.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a DK440LX m'board. It has power management stuffs. So I though I > would give it a try, thinking, when the machine isn't doing anything, it > doesn't need to keep heating my office. > > I started a make world last night, 'round 1 AM -- 9 hours ago. I was > rather surprized to note that it is still going. It doesn't usually take > this long. > > >From looking about, it seems the machine was sleeping on the job. > > Is this normal behaviour? If so, I don't think it is correct. I expected > the system to finish the build, *THEN* fall asleep. APM only tells the system to fall asleep when you tell it to. It has no 'intelligence' built-in. You set when it falls asleep, such as at a certain time, after the battery is low, or whatever. It can set certain items 'asleep' if they've been idle, but the entire system never sleeps unless told to. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message