AkajiCZ

Q: waking up from sleep taking too long

got Mac mini Late 2012 with 16GB of RAM

and when I wake him from sleep, it takes about 60 seconds, its very annoying!! got 90GB free on HDD

 

I remember months ago wakeing up from sleep was almost instant (like 6 second) not this huge amount of time

 

THANKS FOR HELPING ME (and pardon me my english)

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 16, 2014 4:34 AM

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Mar 16, 2014 9:06 AM in response to AkajiCZ
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    Mar 16, 2014 9:06 AM in response to AkajiCZ

    Do you see anything on the screen during the delay?

  • by AkajiCZ,

    AkajiCZ AkajiCZ Mar 16, 2014 9:21 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Mar 16, 2014 9:21 AM in response to Linc Davis

    actually yes, theres a progress bar

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Mar 16, 2014 9:39 AM in response to AkajiCZ
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    Mar 16, 2014 9:39 AM in response to AkajiCZ

    With the Power Nap feature enabled, the computer enters a so-called standby mode after it has been in sleep on battery power for more than a certain time (one hour, by default.) In that mode, the contents of memory are saved to a file, and then the power is turned off. When the computer wakes up, the contents of memory are restored from the file. As a result, waking from sleep takes longer than it otherwise would. The benefit is that sleep can be prolonged indefinitely without draining the battery or having to reboot.

    You have three choices. One is to do nothing. Use the machine as designed. That's what I recommend.

    The second choice is to disable Power Nap in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences. Uncheck the box markedEnable Power Nap... in each of the tabs. You won't get the wake delay anymore, but you won't get any of the features of Power Nap either.

    The third choice is to increase the delay before standby mode is triggered, or to disable standby mode completely. This is an unsupported option and you're on your own as to the consequences. If you choose to go this route, proceed as below. These instructions are for advanced users only. You are tinkering with the hardware configuration at a low level, with the possibility of doing damage from which it may not be easy to recover.

     

    Back up all data.

     

    If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out these instructions.

     

    Drag across the line below to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:

    sudo pmset –a standbydelay

     

    Don't copy the blank space at the end of the line.

       

    Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:

     

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

     

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

     

    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

     

    Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). Press the space bar, then type the delay you want, in seconds. For example, if you want to change the standby delay from the default one hour to eight hours, enter 28800. Don't put commas or other punctuation marks in the number. To disable standby, enter 0 (zero.)

     

    When the command is complete, press return. You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. After running it, quit Terminal. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.

  • by AkajiCZ,

    AkajiCZ AkajiCZ Mar 16, 2014 10:00 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Mar 16, 2014 10:00 AM in response to Linc Davis

    I got disabled Power Nap already, so.. any other ideas?

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Mar 16, 2014 10:14 AM in response to AkajiCZ
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    Mar 16, 2014 10:14 AM in response to AkajiCZ
  • by AkajiCZ,

    AkajiCZ AkajiCZ Mar 16, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Mar 16, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Linc Davis

    YES I KNOW that but I want this process speed up, its taking to long, thats my problem

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Mar 16, 2014 6:01 PM in response to AkajiCZ
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    Mar 16, 2014 6:01 PM in response to AkajiCZ

    See my second comment.