On Sunday 04 Nov 2012 09:31:34 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 04.11.2012 10:23, schrieb Mick: > > I am configuring the 3.5.7 kernel and it brought this up: > > ======================================================== > > CONFIG_PM_AUTOSLEEP: > > > > Allow the kernel to trigger a system transition into a global sleep > > state automatically whenever there are no active wakeup sources. > > > > Symbol: PM_AUTOSLEEP [=n] > > Type : boolean > > Prompt: Opportunistic sleep > > > > Defined at kernel/power/Kconfig:106 > > Depends on: PM_SLEEP [=y] > > > > Location: > > -> Power management and ACPI options > > > > ======================================================== > > > > but I am not sure what the impact of it will be. In particular, I would > > like to avoid sluggishness in the off chance the laptop is thinking that > > it should start placing devices into sleep, when I am still using the > > machine. I recall some laptop option/service causing mplayer stopping > > and restarting when running on battery in the past, so I am keen to > > avoid something similar. > > > > Have you any experience of how this behaves? > > That's meant for smartphone-like devices. It's an alternative to > Android's suspend system. https://lwn.net/Articles/479841/
Thanks Florian, perhaps that's why all I found searching was about android ... -- Regards, Mick
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