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