On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Check out Caffeine at the Mac app store. It drops something in your > toolbar at the top of your screen (looks like a coffee mug). A single click > and it prevents your computer from going to sleep and/or showing the screen > saver. (Easiest manual way of turning sleep on/off I've seen) > > I've never had my MacBook Pro turn off, either (I don't have a desktop to > try it out on), but the hardware is different. It could be that your HDD > cache is bigger/better on the iMac so it doesn't have to spin up as often > (indeed, maybe not even often enough to register before going to sleep). > Ha, followup -- this is because may laptop is not set to go to sleep while plugged in (only on battery). This explains my observations. > Does it actually go to sleep mid-compile? Or does it get stuck somewhere > (i.e. in download stage) where computer resources aren't used so it assumes > all is safe to sleep? > > Hope some of that helped, > Jason > > (I always forget to reply to all!) > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Scott Webster <sewebs...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I have a new imac and it just went to sleep during the install of >> gimp2 and it's dependencies. I could have sworn that my macbook does >> not go to sleep when compiling. Anyone aware of any relevant >> differences between these two systems? Or a way to prevent this >> problem other than just turning sleep on and off manually all the >> time? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Scott >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >> > > > > -- > Jason M. Swails > Quantum Theory Project, > University of Florida > Ph.D. Graduate Student > 352-392-4032 > -- Jason M. Swails Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida Ph.D. Graduate Student 352-392-4032
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