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iMac 2.8 slow to sleep

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JayLenochiniMac

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Nov 7, 2007
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I normally put my iMac at home to sleep at nights and it goes to sleep right away after I click on sleep from the :apple: menu. However, in the past two nights, it's been taking 30 seconds or longer (haven't really timed it) to sleep. Tried restarting but to no avail. "Safe sleep" exists in the notebooks, not the iMac, right?
 
Same issue on my 2.8.

It used to go to sleep immediately from the :apple: menu.

I would like to know the issue and solution also.
 
Was it a refurbished model by chance? Not that I can necessarily see it making a difference, but I've been thinking about trying to get the 2.8ghz refurb, so I was just curious.

Does seem odd...
 
Guess what? The problem went away after about a week out of the blue. I have absolutely no clue what happened. Didn't do anything special like software update, etc.
 
I think the earth, moon, and the planets were not aligned properly.

My issue just went away.

I closed all programs and turned off, and reboot.

Now, if I click sleep, it sleeps immediately.

Go figure:confused:
 
Perhaps you were up late and the daily/weekly/monthy system cleaners ran in the background?

I have this problem when i haven't rebooted or cleaned recently (I use a program called Cocktail)
 
midorix said:
I think the earth, moon, and the planets were not aligned properly.
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I second that.

Perhaps you were up late and the daily/weekly/monthy system cleaners ran in the background?

I have this problem when i haven't rebooted or cleaned recently (I use a program called Cocktail)
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This would not happen in Leopard though, because of how the new launchd process works in excecuting the maintenance scripts.
 
sorry, i didn't clarify enough...i meant that perhaps the maintenance scripts cleaned out something that was slowing you down?

Just hypothesizing here.
 
NP3 said:
sorry, i didn't clarify enough...i meant that perhaps the maintenance scripts cleaned out something that was slowing you down?

Just hypothesizing here.
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That could actually be a reasonable explanation if the weekly or monthly maintentance script kicked in to clean out the culprit of the problem.
 
My 20" does that occasionally too. I just restart it to get rid of extraneous processes, and that usually does it.
 
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