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System sleep depending on login & logout
Authored by: osxpounder on Jan 05, '05 05:18:00PM

Why wouldn't you want the machine to sleep when a user's logged in? Well, as the original poster said, during long downloads .... but also, if you do 3D graphics, video rendering or heavy-duty audio file rendering or similar crunching, you don't want your hard drives to go to sleep.

I assumed the benefit of using this hint is that you can use a special user when you want the computer to stay awake -- log in as that user and start rendering, etc. .... but wouldn't that mean having to install apps again for that user? What a pain that would be.

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System sleep depending on login & logout
Authored by: gshenaut on Jan 06, '05 05:31:18PM
Yes, sometimes you don't want the system to sleep, but not having it sleep whenever someone is logged in defeats the whole purpose of the sleep timer. The hard disk is spun down when it hasn't been used recently, something that won't happen during a long download & doesn't matter anyway because it will spin right back up the next time it is accessed. If you are rendering something, the screen may dim or blank, that's true, but if you are there, just press fn and it will come back. If you aren't around, then it won't matter.

Greg Shenaut

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