<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 September 2010 15:51, Gary Gatling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsgatlin@ncsu.edu">gsgatlin@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Now with a desktop RHEL 6 / newer fedora system, is it possible to make the machines suspend to RAM after a certian amount of inactivity? (say 10 minutes) And, if this is possible, is it possible to "Wake on Lan" so that if a machine was pinged it would wake up? (I think maybe this is a BIOS setting also?)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br> I haven't checked RHEL6 in detail, but I believe it's the same as Fedora 13 in this respect: you can persuade the machine to suspend to RAM after a period of inactivity. I haven't tried it -- your mileage may vary -- but STR does work pretty reliably on machines where it works at all. You might prefer suspend-to-disk (hibernate) as that will (almost) completely power down the machine.<br>
<br>I'm pretty sure WOL also works but you'll need to configure something on the machine: it might just be the WOL cable from the NIC to the motherboard or it might be a setting in the BIOS. Either way, the magic packet will wake the machine up. I wish I could get my machine at home to power on though -- it would only come out of a sleep rather and a power down and that still leaves the power supply (and its fan) running.<br>
<br>jch</div></div>