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Mini hibernates despite pmset saying it shouldn't

Hello. My new (late 2012) Mac Mini is great, but I've noticed that after putting it to sleep, an hour later it wakes again (although not the displays) to write everything in memory to disk. I'd rather turn this off (it seems a bit pointless given I have 16GB RAM and it just creates a ~20 or so pause when I start the Mini up again whilst it reads everything back off the disk. Also if I did ever have a power cut, there'd be just as much chance of it happening whilst I was actually using the computer as when it was sleeping, so...)


Anyway, the output below says 'hibernatemode' is set to zero, which from everything I've read suggests it shouldn't be using it.


wt-macmini:~ wt$ pmset -g

Active Profiles:

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

standby 1

powerbutton 1

womp 0

autorestart 0

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 10

sleep 180

autopoweroffdelay 14400

hibernatemode 0

autopoweroff 1

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 30

standbydelay 4200


Any suggestions?


Thanks,

William

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 12:43 AM

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Nov 8, 2012 1:47 AM in response to wturrell

This was happening to my, after alot of searching I found out it's the "AutoPowerOff = 1" and AutoPowerOffDelay = 14400" thats causing it to switch off/go into hibernation mode.


Use this command in terminal to turn it off:


sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0


This is what my pmset -g is set to.


Active Profiles:

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

standby 0

powerbutton 1

womp 1

autorestart 0

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 0

sleep 15

autopoweroffdelay 14400

hibernatemode 0

autopoweroff 0

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 15

standbydelay 4200

Apr 2, 2013 1:51 PM in response to Frank D'Anna

Unfortunately autopoweroff, standby, autopoweroffdelay nor standbydelay didn't make a difference for me, the computer always goes to Safe Sleep over night. I'm kinda frustrated form it cause whatever I try it's always the same 😟


Furthermore they say "standby only works if hibernation is turned on to hibernatemode 3 or 25." and "standby causes kernel power management to automatically hibernate a machine after it has slept for a specified time period." So how come that my iMac hibernates when I have hibernate mode set to 0 and the "specified time period" is set to 24 hours???

Mini hibernates despite pmset saying it shouldn't

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