oops. typo correction, below:
i wrote:
> hal wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody give me a pointer to some sample code that will wake up a
> > suspended system in 5 minutes? I'm assuming there is some way to do this
> > using the alarm interrupt from the RTC.
>
> use:
> rtcwake -s 600 -m mem
>
> to wake the system in 600 seconds, after suspending it to S3.
> see the man page -- but other -m options work, including "no", i
i meant to write:
"...but NO other -m options work, ...
i should also point out that powerd uses rtcwake for its own purposes,
so if you want exclusive control, you should disable it.
paul
> believe. (although, if someone tries it and it does work, i'll
> stand corrected.)
>
> >
> > Can somebody confirm that sleep does what I expect on suspended systems?
> >
> > My expectation is that the sleep timer logically ticks when suspended,
> but
> > that the system won't get woken up when the sleep timer expires.
> >
> > For example, suppose my program does a sleep(100), and shortly after that
> the
> > system suspends.
> >
> > If the next wakeup is 200 seconds after the start of the sleep, my
> program
> > should run then (along with whatever caused the wakeup).
> >
> > Or if the system wakes up after 50 seconds and doesn't suspend again, my
> > program should run 100 seconds after it started to sleep.
>
> i'm afraid not. your sleep will be stretched by the duration of
> the suspend. see the following. a 30 second sleep starts at
> 15:42:41. the system suspends for 15 seconds, and wakes (that's
> where the "+r" gets printed) at 15:43:01 (2 seconds later than it
> expected to, btw). the sleep terminates, and prints "sleep
> ended" and the date at 15:43:25. that's roughly 45 seconds after
> the 30 second sleep started.
>
> [r...@xo-a7-2a-c8 dev]# touch /var/run/powerd-inhibit-suspend/1
> [r...@xo-a7-2a-c8 dev]# (date; sleep 30; echo sleep ended; date) &
> [2] 3122
> Wed Jul 28 15:42:41 GMT 2010
> [r...@xo-a7-2a-c8 dev]# rtcwake -s 15 -m mem; date
> rtcwake: assuming RTC uses UTC ...
> rtcwake: wakeup from "mem" using /dev/rtc0 at Wed Jul 28 15:42:59 2010
>
> +rWed Jul 28 15:43:01 GMT 2010
> [r...@xo-a7-2a-c8 dev]# sleep ended
> Wed Jul 28 15:43:25 GMT 2010
>
>
> =---------------------
> paul fox, p...@laptop.org
=---------------------
paul fox, p...@laptop.org
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