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From: mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Fwd: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout
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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
> 
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