nonnoroger wrote: > It is a simple change to the plugin that you can make for yourself once > it is installed. See next post for the modification. But let me clarify > once again. ReallyPreventStandby still relies on polling every 60 > seconds. There is an almost inevitable race condition that depends on > the precise timing of asynchronous events that leads in my testing to > the Mac occasionally going back to sleep after WOL before caffeinate has > set the power assertion. For similar reasons, it sometimes goes back to > sleep too early - ignoring the set grace period in the settings of > Really PreventStandby. I asked if others wanted to try it nevertheless > so we could get an idea of just how often this happens in practice. > > > Sorry but again I seem to have failed to help you understand my point. > It is not an issue with WOL in general but with WOL from a Squeezebox > when ReallyPreventStandby is polling every 60 seconds. Hopefully, other > applications that use WOL will do what is necessary themselves. The > nature of the race condition will no doubt change depending on how many > cores the processor has. I run LMS on a late 2009 Mac Mini. > > > It is not just a question of neatness. It is only with LMS creating and > releasing its own power assertions that we will be able to reliably > avoid the race conditions explained above. > > > Of course, I too would like Caffeine or something like it to work > reliably again (I have had no response from the developers). But that is > a different solution to a different problem
I felt some of your earlier posts implied that you did not like the idea of Caffeine. It seems I was wrong. I have also written to the developer with no reply as yet. I understand about the possibility of a race. What I do not understand is why, after WOL has woken up a Mac, it would ever go to sleep before the idle period as set in Energy Saver. If it stayed awake that long, RPS would always win the race. That's why I was suggesting trying what happens with WOL in other situations. I note that a Google search does reveal some issues with WOL, for instance https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3735289?start=0&tstart=0. When I have a bit of time, I'll follow your instructions on reworking RPS, much neater than mine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95980 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
