Re: Insomniacal Mac

On 2024-06-07 21:37, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-06-07 22:01:30 +0000, Alan Browne said:

Sometimes it will go the whole night w/o waking more than once or twice.
(In the "daytime" that log hits 1/hour on the hour as designed).

 There are all sorts of things MacOS does behind-the-scenes during "idle" times, Spotlight indexing, Time Machine, update checking, malware checking, etc. being just a few examples. Sleep mode doesn't stop all those things happening. Other apps running will also have things the do.

I'd just as soon it kept quiet all night.

 The simple solution, as someone else said, is to just shut the computer down when you're not using it - there's zero reason for it to be running 24-7, unless it's an internet server that others need to access while you're asleep.

I leave it up for weeks - but of course it is asleep for good periods of that.
Longest was on the order of 3 months before I was forced to re-boot for some reason.  This new Apple Si. Mac hasn't made it more than 4 weeks w/o there being some good reason to re-boot it.
The old i7 iMac (2012) has been up since a power failure a couple months ago w/o issue.  But it's on lighter duty these days.
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