Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 11:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> nordi wrote:
> > Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > While I agree that hibernating and powering off a computer that is
> > > doing nothing
> > I tend to disagree. Even an idle computer does _something_: It waits for
> > commands from its master, maintaining quasi-immediate availability
> > (quasi, because the screen goes black, but thats ~1 second).
>
> You removed the second part of my paragraph that changed the
> meaning :-)
>
> However, if you want to be polemic,  a computer that is waiting for
> input is said to be idling in computer parlance. Doing almost nothing.
> Some designs slow down the CPU, or even actually send the CPU to
> sleep, on those phases. Events such a keypress or a timing interval
> can awake it. No such feature on PCs.
>
>
> > Since the automatic sleeping seems to be on by default, this raises some
> > questions: What mechanisms are in place to prevent the computer from
> > going to sleep during an overnight compile job or download? What
> > mechanism prevents a dual use desktop+server from going to sleep during
> > lunch break? What about organizer-applications that want to
> > (acoustically) notify me about something that's on my schedule while I
> > am not using the PC?
>
> Well, the logic could detect "how busy" is the machine.
>
> > Considering that, people may be, well, 'unhappy' about their computer
> > going to sleep while it is supposed to be working. And this feature
> > would probably be the first thing that I switch off.
>
> Well, Magnus already has said that he would change the default.

Oh, I hope I didn't say that :-)   I will try to get it changed as, in
my opinion, it shouldn't suspend by default.

Here's the bug report:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439018

Cheers,
Magnus

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