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Can Anybody Help Me to put my MBP to sleep faster?

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XTRanger

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Jun 24, 2007
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I recently purchased a MBP, 2.6GHz. The machine is great, but one problem that I am having is that the machine takes over 50 seconds to go to sleep, from the time i close the lid.

I have seen my friends MB going to sleep under 4 seconds from the time they close the lid-- and thats how it was with the G4s (i believe).


Can anyone tell me what the heck is wrong with my computer that it takes so long to go to sleep?
 
The new machines have "Safe Sleep", which write the contents of your memory to disk, and then turns off the computer. The older computers just went to sleep, and would lose informaiton if they lost power during this time.

Not sure though if the new machines go into "Safe Sleep" immediately, or after certain period of time...
 
aross99 said:
The new machines have "Safe Sleep", which write the contents of your memory to disk, and then turns off the computer. The older computers just went to sleep, and would lose informaiton if they lost power during this time.

Not sure though if the new machines go into "Safe Sleep" immediately, or after certain period of time...
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would this safe sleep setting increase the time for the computer to go to sleep by 45 seconds? I looked around, and found out a way to disable safe sleep by using the Terminal.

That did not seem to help me... the transit time to sleep is still at ~50seconds. Anything else I can try?
 
reset pram lol never know might help

google: (resetting pram)

or repair permissions in disk utility
 
I don't know if this is what you already typed into the Terminal, but I'll ask just to make sure.
Code: 
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
 
hehe... this is not windows world we're talking about you know. No restart required for this sort of thing. :)

XTRanger, make sure you provide your sudo (super user) password correctly at the terminal prompt when you are asked to do so. Otherwise the sudo command won't get executed.

fsckminix6 said:
did you restart the computer...?
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fsckminix6 said:
did you restart the computer...?
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Yep. Didnt help.


Lone Deranger said:
XTRanger, make sure you provide your sudo (super user) password correctly at the terminal prompt when you are asked to do so. Otherwise the sudo command won't get executed.
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I entered it correctly. even when i do "$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode" to check for the current state, it says that its in mode 0, but it still takes time to go to sleep, as if nothing changed.
 
XTRanger said:
I entered it correctly. even when i do "$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode" to check for the current state, it says that its in mode 0, but it still takes time to go to sleep, as if nothing changed.
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I also seem to have the same issue.


I am running Tiger though, so maybe that may have something to do with it. What OS are you running?
 
Are you sure it's actually taking that long to go to sleep, or are the fans just on for 50+ seconds? When I close my lid, it takes a couple of seconds for the screen to turn off, then in another couple, I hear the HD park: meaning for all intensive purposes, the computer is asleep. However, the fan keeps spinning for another 10 or so seconds, depending on how hot it was.
 
10.4.10 seems to take longer to sleep than 10.4.11.

More ram / apps used = longer to safe sleep.

Tried changing hibernation mode on Santa Rosa 17" 2.4ghz but didn't work for me either.

Do you have Apple Remote Desktop 2 installed?
 
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