[conspire] idle computer

[Ruben Safir]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:55:06PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > Right, but you have to assume, know that you can always be wrong, that
> > since he is mentioning the copying of files, that this is likely failing
> > (or wy mention it), and that would be due to a suspend to ram or disk.
> 
> I am disinclined to answer people's queries about Linux based on 
> assumptions, on my part, about what the person meant, unless I 
> have a large degree of confidence in those assumptions.  You want to 
> make those assumptions?  Fine by me, but I'm not.
> 
> He didn't mention anything 'failing', for starters.
> 
> No, I don't have to 'assume'.  ;->
> 
> 
> > If he is using gnome, he can turn that off, or turn it off within the
> > system admin toolkit of whatever distro he is using.
> 
> Now, _this_ advice strikes me as uselessly vague.
> 

I agree, but in suse it is in the gnome "control panel" - ugg
although you can turn it off the the kernel level with suseconfig

What one does on redhat or debian, I have no idea.

> 
>     
> > I tend to feel for the fan to be on or off.
> 
> That won't tell you a damned thing about whether disk activity is
> ongoing.
> 
> 
> > Its completely unfocused.  But good money is on the fact that gnome or
> > kde is the admin of the suspend mode.
> 
> Again, this is uselessly vague.  Moreover, it's in error about the way
> ACPI is implemented on Linux.
> 
> /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager or /usr/bin/powerdevil is merely a
> graphical front-end for upower and dbus-send (formerly devicekit-power
> or hal), and for cpufreq-set.
> 
> 
> 
> > And yet my dell opteron seems to handle it better than I've seen any
> > other system do so before.
> 
> That doesn't contradict what I said, Ruben.
> 
> > My guess, and I'm being ignorant, is that as long as not keyboard or
> > mouse movent happens, it goes to sleep, regardless of any other
> > functions.
> 
> Could well be.  Experimentation would tell, obviously.
> 
> 
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