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energy saver disksleep not working


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energy saver disksleep not working

 

 

currently my disk on my laptop, 10.4.9 is never sleeping,

did set in energy saver , put to sleep whenever possible, never does,

note: S3 sleep does not work,...

 

checked with

 

pmset -g

shows disksleep is at 10

 

pmset -b disksleep 1

... sets it for battery for 1 minute, no dice

 

 

anybody have some ideas , how to force it ?

or check/ disable thinks, aka log, firefox, ect,...

 

please post, primary interest for laptop/notebook,

but probably applies for desktops too, thanks

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fs_usage -f filesys reports file access,...

 

it be nice, at night, for web browsing,

to be able to have the energy saver work, and spin down the disk,...

 

from camino, firefox,safari,... seams all of them do some disk access,...

 

the fs_usage command , can give some light to it,...

 

looks like, a lots of work, to get there,...

other option, to have a livecd linux boot up, no swap, everything in ram,...

or maybe a flash disk, running os x , 8GB or 16gb,

 

other problem, since speedstep is broken, to get it to run in lower speed,

and some sort of fan control, ...

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