On Apr 23, 2010, at 8:17 PM, racecivicman wrote:
First the specs of this machine.
You forget something? (like the OS version?). If it's "bone stock" as you say, then it's Jaguar?
I'm kinda hoping this is an easy fix because I hate the idea of this thing running 24/7.
If you're that worried about energy use, sell the MDD and get yourself a laptop instead. Sleep is one of the most messed up things in any OS, not just OS X. It could be almost anything. If you're connected to the internet and you've got programs or parts of the OS that check for updates, or synchronize time, or do almost anything in background, any one of these can cause it to not sleep. I think this is a lost cause unless you're willing to dig around in the log files to see what's active when, and correlate this with the activity you see externally at these specific times. I never use sleep, and I never have problems.
You might try enabling hibernation if you're psycho about power usage. I think it requires 10.4 Tiger to enable hibernation (also called "safe sleep"). This is where the system writes an image of the RAM contents to the HD, and then restores the computer to its "exact" state before hibernation. It's like a complete shutdown, but it reboots faster because it loads the stored sleepimage into RAM and you're going again, with all your windows and applications in the exact state they were before hibernation.
See this to enable hibernation in 10.4: <http://matt.ucc.asn.au/apple/machibernate.html> See this to enable hibernation in 10.5: <http://www.machoe.com/1423/hibernate-mac-with-deep-sleep.html> -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
