preventing sleep during compilation

[Jason Swails]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails at 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 <sewebster at 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
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>
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> Jason M. Swails
> Quantum Theory Project,
> University of Florida
> Ph.D. Graduate Student
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>



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Jason M. Swails
Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida
Ph.D. Graduate Student
352-392-4032
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