On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:52:47PM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > check the power management settings on the bios first, maybe it is going > to sleep.
disabled, but awakement options all set to ON (just for my safety) > Check your cron log and crontabs. nothing special. I have syslog monitored at tty11: just portslave/pppd activity of modem users and rare cron lines about my python tasks. Nothing about APM or so... There is even NO "APM" WORD found by grep in /var/log! I think it is something different. Maybe next reboot I'll check BIOS settings again. > Are there times when the system is really completely idel--no users? yes, deeply in the morning, when all night users went to their beds and when day users are still sleeping. Approx 2-3 hours of dialup and network idle, but cron awakes with python tasks every minute for different purposes. > If so, set up some jobs to run continuously to keep it happy and nice them > low. > Might make the problem go away for temporary purposes. It doesn't go away. I have set up crontab to ping leased client with 5 small packets every 10 minutes... Guess what? It didn't help... :( > set up syslog to log to external box so you can more easily diagnose log > files. > Check the kernel compilation and see if power management is on and active, > turn it off if it is. As I have recently checked my 'make menuconfig' infos on 'APM' subject... It is off. And there is no visible reason for my PC to sleep, but ping from outside disappears after 1 hour or more of idle. P.S. What next? :-\ I will check BIOS setting upon next reboot. -- Sincerely, Dmitry
