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Re:Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on dema... by dekhn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:33PM (#35631676)
NOte that the NUCs with power saving and wifi have a serious problem: latency. By default in the various Linux OSen I use, wifi power management is enabled. Often times, repeated pings will jump from 5ms to 100+ms (with a very high variance) and network bandwidth will be extremely poor. Even ssh on a LAN can be unusable!
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Re:Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on dema... by jeffbee on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:07PM (#35632030)
Sure, but it's a miracle that it can do this at all. It's entering and exiting a sleep state that is very nearly off, in between pings.
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