Re: iMac hibernation mode

Carl Hoefs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 6:13 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 23, 2018, at 6:02 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Vanilla install of macOS Sierra on a blank HDD. No network. The problem is not that the machine isn’t going to sleep. It’s that when it does sleep, it goes into hibernation sleep, and has to restore itself from the sleep image upon wake (power button press).
> 
> Thank the Eurogreenies.
> 
> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201635


Yes, the above was a valuable clue!  It looks like the “Eurogreenies” are indeed at fault!

I just went, line by line, through all of the pmset -g settings, and I think I found the problem.

Somehow autopoweroff was set to 1.  autopoweroffdelay was set to 14400, which is 4 hours.

The man page says:  

autopoweroff is enabled by default on supported platforms as an implementation of Lot 6 to the European Energy-
     related Products Directive. After sleeping for <autopoweroffdelay> seconds, the system will write a hibernation
     image and go into a lower power chipset sleep. Wakeups from this state will take longer than wakeups from regu-
     lar sleep.

I’ve now set autopoweroff to 0, and I will leave the system untouched overnight. This should restore some sanity.

-Carl

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