Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:51:06 -0500 From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM: Too tired to keep working?! Message-ID: <v04003a0cb141ceda2ab7@[208.140.182.45]> In-Reply-To: <199803271550.IAA29107@mt.sri.com> References: <v04003a03b141775599ae@[208.140.182.45]> <199803270543.QAA01710@cimlogic.com.au> <4914.890976564@time.cdrom.com> <19980327094710.25740@deepo.prosa.dk> <v04003a03b141775599ae@[208.140.182.45]>
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>> 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. Uh, my system seems to disagree. I did an apmconf -e to enable it, and it did the rest. When I moved the mouse, the screen woke up, the disk started rattling, and the compile picked up and continued. It did this three times, before I used apmconf -d to disable it (at least until the build finished). +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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