Unusually long sleep delay

[bungiefan89]

My iMac suddenly takes a good 30 seconds to fall asleep after I tap the power button or select sleep from the Apple menu. It used to sleep after only 3-5 seconds, but now it takes much longer.

The only major change I've made to the computer since this problem began is set it up at a different electrical outlet. I haven't changed the energy saver settings, no bluetooth connectivity, no change to network settings or hookup.

Any help?

 

[killerrobot]

Try resetting the SMC. Hopefully that fixes it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

 

[bungiefan89]

Try resetting the SMC. Hopefully that fixes it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

Shutting the computer down and firing her back up worked. Thanks!

 

[zarathu]

Shutting the computer down and firing her back up worked. Thanks!

Most people just sleep. But these machines have maintenance stuff that is done when you shutdown and restart. You can get certain utilities to do them for you, or you can just shut down and start up once a week, and teh mac will do the Maintenance during the process.

If you leave them running, the Maintenance sycle I believe scheduled to run at 4:00 AM, or at least that's when it used to run.