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Hessiess

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Registered: 2008-07-21

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auto suspend after a piriod of time exept if cpu usage is high

how can I make Linux suspend automaticly after a period of time except when the CPU usage is high (Blender is rendering). im using Awesome.

Onwards

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From: Pakistan

Registered: 2007-04-18

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Re: auto suspend after a piriod of time exept if cpu usage is high

A high CPU usage value is a measure which is quite unpredictable. You may get a bump in your CPU usage value due to a buggy software (thus a false positive...).

Alternatively, we can talk of a script that waits for a program (blender in this case) to finish and then launch a suspend-sequence...

Last edited by Onwards (2008-08-24 16:57:28)

Hessiess

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 71

Re: auto suspend after a piriod of time exept if cpu usage is high

A high CPU usage value is a measure which is quite unpredictable. You may get a bump in your CPU usage value due to a buggy software (thus a false positive...).

Alternatively, we can talk of a script that waits for a program (blender in this case) to finish and then launch a suspend-sequence...

as rendering is a verry time consuming prosess, I often start blender rendering overnight, but then if it finishes the computer is just running doing nothing until morning, hence why I want it to suspend itself. as far as im aware, Blender doesn't have any way of telling an external program that its finished rendering, besides the fact that its not using all the CPU any more...