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    Power Manager: When "idle" is not idle

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by GlennT, Jan 4, 2011.

  1. GlennT

    GlennT Notebook Geek

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    From what I can tell, Lenovo & Windows 7 PM look at keyboard and mouse action to determine if the system is "idle". Ripping & encoding BluRay disks with my X201T takes several hours with my CPU (i7-620L) at 100% capacity. Believe it or not, saving multi-gig files to a NAS can take hours too.

    In both cases, I want to walk away from the PC and come back to a completed task. Unfortunately, I've been burned a couple times by the power manager putting the system to sleep while the CPU was doing anything but sleeping.

    Of course, I can tell it to never sleep when attached to AC power, but them it won't sleep when the system is really idle.

    Is there some adjustment I can make that redefines "idle" to include CPU load? Some other criteria like HD read/write cycles would work too.

    Thanks!
     
    GlennT, Jan 4, 2011
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