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Not Falling Asleep

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Mr.PS

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Jan 8, 2008
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My Mac Pro is set to go to sleep after 1 hour, yet it never does. Could ethernet activity be keeping it awake? Ichat and Colloquy are the only two connected applications when I step away from my computer. Neither of them as the disable sleep option enabled.

What can it be?
 
Perhaps you should be grateful - whenever my Mac Pro sleeps, it either reboots after waking or (on the rare occassions it restarts correctly) can't burn DVDs/access my scanner/has random networking glitches.
 
It rebooted on me when I forced it to sleep then tried to wake it up. Thunderbird has been stopping it from falling asleep, I closed Thunderbird last night and it feel asleep normally and woke up normally.
 
Mine wasn't going to sleep either, then I started to get rid of a few things: one was one of those 3rd party software things that told you the temperature of ram, hds, etc. Then it started to sleep again.
 
scottydawg said:
That is exactly what I am sayin' ;)
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Oh noes.... :(
I've never heard about that! Is it a bug or a (sort of) feature??

I'm toying with a Mac Pro & hardware Raid5. But if such a setup leads to a 24/7 running machine...this would be a no-go for me! Please, can you give me details? Is it a common problem?
 
scottydawg said:
I don't think it's a problem I think it's how they work. I know mine never sleeps and Apple told me that's how it works.
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Thanks a lot for this information. Although it's a pity imo.... "every" simple NAS has powermanagement!
 
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