I have a 2018 mini.
The standybydelayhigh & standbydelaylow are BOTH set by default to 86,400 seconds. That's 24 hours. Why would Mojave wait 24 hours before writing RAM to hard disk? When I had High Sierra, I think that the default was 3,600 seconds or 1 hour.
I want to change it to a shorter time. What do you recommend?
Mac mini, macOS 10.14
I have a 2018 mini, the desktop. The mini is plugged into a UPS but I don't know how long the UPS would supply power to the computer. That's irrelevant anyway since the RAM contents are copied to the SSD on my mini.
24 hours is a long time for a laptop to wait until the RAM contents are copied to the SSD. The whole time the battery is draining.
I have a 2013 Air laptop. I haven't checked the standbydelay times.
Which brings up another question. I used the Terminal & found out that the hibernatemode file is 2 GB. I have 8 GB of RAM. I suppose that it's possible to increase the hibernatemode file to 8 GB. You probably wouldn't recommend that I change the file size. I don't intend to. But what is the command to change the hibernatemode file size?
FWIW, I have never touched these settings on my mac (2014 MBP), and they are set to 10800 and 86400; that is 3 and 24 hours, respectively.
macnerd48 wrote:
But what is the command to change the hibernatemode file size?
I don't know. Perhaps someone else does.
I believe the settings are only relevant to laptops so I would leave them alone.
A thought occurred to me after I sent the post. Apple probably installs the same identical version of OS X on ALL SSDs no matter whether the SSD goes into a desktop or a laptop.
standbydelayhigh & standbydelaylow
