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Energy Saver Processor Cycling bug; Sleeper solution

Energy Saver Processor Cycling bug; Sleeper solution

CNET staff
Regarding yesterday's item about Processor Cycling slowing down a Power Mac G4, the story is a bit more complicated than we first thought. Craig Pearson explains: "I may not have been clear to the most important thing I found with the problem. If the Energy Saver control panel is disabled, then the Processor Cycling will default to on, causing the slow down! To prevent this, I must uncheck the 'Allow Processor Cycling' option, but leave Energy Saver enabled." Kadari Mayson similarly notes: "Even with the Processor Cycling box unchecked in the Energy Saver control panel, processor cycling is re-enabled if I disable Energy Saver altogether." Kadari was trying to use Sleeper instead of Energy Saver. Note: Sleeper warns that you may need to have Energy Saver enabled to use Sleeper's "Power Down (Sleep) computer when idle" function. Kadari adds: "If I do as suggested, and try to use Sleeper and Energy Saver in tandem, with the sleep preferences off in Energy Saver, my G4 won't properly wake up from sleep. When I have contacted St. Clair Software about this, they sent me Sleeper 3.2.3b7. This fixes the 'wake from sleep' bug and also adds a 'Disable Processor Cycling' checkbox."