On Jul 13, 2012 8:34 AM, "Ronny Mandal" <ronn...@volatile.no> wrote: > > On 13.07.2012 15:52, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> I am running a small personal file server. To ensure constant network >>> access, had to disable the ACPI, hence no power saving at all. The CPU >> >> >> why you "had to" disable ACPI. i never ever seen network problems with ACPI. basically it works, or it doesn't at all. >> > When the server is idle with ACPI enabled, it did not respond to ping after a short period. With ACPI disabled, this was alleviated. So, basically, it will stop working after a while. My guess is that ACPI will shut down the power for the NIC. But that is only a guess. Furthermore, when ACPI is disabled, no network problem arises. This suggests, at least to me, that ACPI is somehow involved. > > >>> gets very warm as everything (presumably) is running at full throttle. >>> Is there any way to disable the ACPI partially, i.e. allow spin-down >>> for disks etc, but keep the NICs running? >> >> >> This is IMHO not about FreeBSD support of ACPI but possible BIOS settings that turn on some kind of hibernation. > > Each and every power saving function in the BIOS is disabled. Nevertheless, I believe that a selective ACPI configuration should resolve this issue, > > > >>> >>> Hope that this question was understandable. Thanks. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Ronny Mandal >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
A «band-aid» type fix could be to ping gw (once) using cron 0-59/5 or something.... Waitman Gobble San Jose California _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
