For what it's worth, I use a free app from the MacOS app store called Amphetamine:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12 This makes it easy to make the laptop stay on indefinitely, even if the lid is closed. It works very robustly. -- William On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 1:32 PM 'Justin C. Walker' via sage-release <sage-release@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi, Dima, Good question. See below... > > > On Feb 22, 2022, at 01:32 , Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:13 AM 'Justin C. Walker' via sage-release > > <sage-release@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Feb 20, 2022, at 06:30 , Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> As always, you can get the latest beta version from the "develop" git > >>> branch. Alternatively, the self-contained source tarball is at > >>> http://www.sagemath.org/download-latest.html > >> > >> Built w/o problems on macOS 10.15.7 (2019 MBP, 8-core Core i9). > >> > >> All tests (‘ptestlong’) passed! > > > > I wonder whether you have non-standard power settings on to prevent timeouts > > some (most) people see while testing on macOS. > > My power settings, for this system are: > o Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when display is off > o Wake for Wi-Fi network access > and the display is set to turn off after ~11 minutes. > > However, in the past, I found that the system would sleep regardless of the > settings (and timeouts would abound :-}) > > My low-tech solution was to set one “hot corner” to “disable the screen > saver”. > > Now, I just push the cursor to that hot corner when building sage, and lo…no > timeouts or sleeping on the job. > > I can’t explain why disabling the screen saver has that effect, but Apple > moves in mysterious ways. > > HTH > > Justin > > PS: I have to use this trick on both laptops and my iMac(?!). > > -- > Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large, Director > Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income > -------- > The path of least resistance: > it's not just for electricity any more. > -------- > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/96B0ECED-4A0F-406D-9FAE-AC67037E98BA%40mac.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/CACLE5GDq3Ej6MW9XmQ224BSzFUjNC%2B-ATu6gGTcJd0-TO9fy7g%40mail.gmail.com.
