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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If |
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>> you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with |
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>> USB_SUSPEND the devices not used (say, the backup disk you transfer |
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>> to the results of your crunching every weekend) can be suspended, |
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>> saving a little bit of power. |
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> No, I don't need that, having no superfluous devices connected. My weekly |
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> backup is of the entire system to an external USB disk. Not from the |
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> running system; I reboot to a mini system (which I call a rescue system) |
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> each Sunday morning and backup the entire system to USB disk. So far I |
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> haven't needed to recover more than a small section of the backup. |
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>> You don't leave the monitor turned on and disable the power off |
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>> features of it, right? |
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> I resent the kernel's insistence on deciding when my monitor should be |
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> switched off. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself, thank you very |
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> much. |
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There's a sysctl for that. I don't remember what it is off the top of my head. |
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