[CentOS] NFS sleepy woes

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:42 +1000, Res wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 22:08, Res wrote:
> >>>
> >>> CentOS-4 uses a 2.6.9-x kernel that is much better at doing what your
> >>> BIOS says for power saving mode than 2.4 kernels were.  I would first
> >>> check the sleep settings in the BIOS of the problem machine.
> >>>
> >>> If that doesn't work, you try turning off the apmd and acpid services.
> >>
> >> that unfortunately means teh system wont  do a real poweroff if the UPS
> >> instructs it to.
> >>
> >> dropped down to  2.4.31 kernel and the problem seems to have gone away
> >> so I think your right, its the 2.6.x kernel doing what it should,
> >> regrettably we dont want it to :)
> >
> > What about changing the power-saving options in bios to do
> > what you want?
> 
> I'm sure they were all set to disable, one of the first things we normally 
> do :)

There is an option you can put on the end of the kernel line
in /boot/grub/grub.conf that turns off some acpi features and it might
work:

acpi=ht




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