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Delay Before Sleep?

WCityMike

02-21-2003, 08:31 AM

Lately, when I tell my system to sleep, there's a noticeable delay before the system sleeps of, say, up to 10 seconds. A similar, perhaps somewhat shorter delay happens when it wakes up.

I have AirPort, but this delay occurs even when I have turned AirPort off.

Is there any reason that people can think of? Oddly enough, during this pause, I can work, type, etc., and the activity will not prevent the sleep from initiating ...

I would like to try to figure out what's going on, but I don't even know how to start investigating this one! I have some familiarity with Terminal stuff, so if there's something Unix-y, let me know ... (I'll x-post this to the Unix - General forum, too.)

Thanks, guys.

hayne

02-21-2003, 10:26 AM

Here's a few things you can try:

1) Do a "Safe Boot" by holding the Shift key while restarting. If the problem goes away after this, it is related to some third-party extension or startup-item.

2) Look at the System log: /var/log/system.log

3) Run 'top' in Terminal and watch what is happening.

4) Run 'sudo fs_usage' in Terminal. It will show you (voluminous) info about which files are being accessed by which programs.

WCityMike

02-24-2003, 01:46 PM

A very brief selection of FaxSTF as a printer did a number of automatic configuration changes without notifying me (BAD company! BAD! BAD!), including the placement of "Fax Server" into my Login Items. Once that was removed, I didn't have any further problems.

Thanks for your help ... I'm feeling a bit sheepish, as I should have checked the Login Items first before doing anything. I just assumed that it was how I left it, and you know what they say about assuming. Sigh ...

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