Re- Re: Re- [WinMac] Power Failure/Elegant Shutdown?


Mo! Langdon(maureen[at]mail1.jpl.nasa.gov)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:50:20 -0700


At 9:14 AM -0700 9-28-98, Bruce Johnson wrote:

>Mo! Langdon wrote:

>>

>s like a charm.

>>

>> Mac PowerChute, among its other features, is a major CPU hog; all of
my

>> PowerChutes have had a little ResEdit hack to settle them down, and
they

>> are now camping happy on all servers.

>

>You got that hack posted/documented anywhere? I've been thinking of

>getting one for my mac (we have several dozen APC UPS'es here at work

>and they work as advertised) at home. Doubt I'd need PowerChute, but

>posting that hack up would make life real nice for many people using

>Macs as servers!

Since you asked nicely!! :-D

<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>This was originally posted by Paul
Bucher, on the Apple Workroup Servers list:

> If you don't mind using ResEdit you can adjust polling time for
PowerChute. PowerChute

> can be configured to sleep longer between polls. To do this. Open up
the PowerChute

> application in ResEdit, Open the 'SIGS' resource, change the sleep
time parameter from

> 5 to 100, Save & Quit. Using 100 for the sleep time parameter,
PowerChute uses less

> then 1% of CPU time according to "Process Spy". I testing I found
that PowerChute stil

> responds very quickly to a power failure with using a lot less CPU
time. You can find

> ResEdit on Apple's ftp sites and various Mac ftp archives.

Sla/n,

Mo!

JPL

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