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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need PM_AUTOSLEEP?
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:33:35
Message-Id: 509635F6.5020009@binarywings.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Do I need PM_AUTOSLEEP? by Mick
1 Am 04.11.2012 10:23, schrieb Mick:
2 > I am configuring the 3.5.7 kernel and it brought this up:
3 > ========================================================
4 > CONFIG_PM_AUTOSLEEP:
5 >
6 > Allow the kernel to trigger a system transition into a global sleep
7 > state automatically whenever there are no active wakeup sources.
8 >
9 > Symbol: PM_AUTOSLEEP [=n]
10 > Type : boolean
11 > Prompt: Opportunistic sleep
12 > Defined at kernel/power/Kconfig:106
13 > Depends on: PM_SLEEP [=y]
14 > Location:
15 > -> Power management and ACPI options
16 > ========================================================
17 >
18 > but I am not sure what the impact of it will be. In particular, I would like
19 > to avoid sluggishness in the off chance the laptop is thinking that it should
20 > start placing devices into sleep, when I am still using the machine. I recall
21 > some laptop option/service causing mplayer stopping and restarting when
22 > running on battery in the past, so I am keen to avoid something similar.
23 >
24 > Have you any experience of how this behaves?
25
26 That's meant for smartphone-like devices. It's an alternative to
27 Android's suspend system. https://lwn.net/Articles/479841/
28
29 Regards,
30 Florian Philipp

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Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need PM_AUTOSLEEP? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>