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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:09:36 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
Cc:        mojo fms <fbsdlilly@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: acpi HD spin down and CPU sleep
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0906030109m12b73342r1e4270632457f627@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/6/3 Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM, mojo fms <fbsdlilly@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How would I configure freebsd 7.1 (7.2 upgrade in the future) to sleep t=
he
>> HD's and maybe sleep the CPU after an idle time out? =A0I am trying to s=
ave
>> power and I would like it to wake on network requests and HD needs. =A0I=
 read
>> the handbook and looked at the acpiconf man page and such but I have not
>> seen anything about doing this really.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> ataidle in ports for the HDD
>
> powerd in base for the CPU (if the CPU supports it)

Or, for hard drives, I have in my rc.local

/sbin/atacontrol spindown ad1 3600

from base system.

Chris



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