Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of PowerManagement

Timestamp:

Sep 4, 2008, 9:42:24 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Kevin Reed

Comment:

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PowerManagement

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 == Power Policies ==
  * BOINC should never change an operating system setting.
+ * Default BOINC settings should allow power policies on a computer to behave similarly to the behavior when BOINC is not installed
 
 == Usage Scenarios ==
 Below is a list of scenarios we need to support:
+ * A user who has set their computer to automatically go into standby after 15 minutes should continue to see a similar behavior after installing BOINC
+> NOTES:  The default policy needs to be that if a user has a computer set to go into standby then it should still be able to go into standby automatically.  However, if the user has no power policy set, then BOINC should continue to run.  Ex:  The general idea is that BOINC would stop running at something like 1/2 the system standby time.  This would mean in the above case that after 7.5 minutes BOINC would stop running.  15 minutes later the system would go into standby.  This gives similar behavior to what the user would observe if BOINC was not installed
  * Company X wants to impose a company mandate that machines should go to sleep 30 minutes after the user goes inactive.
 > TODO: BOINC already has the 'Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last X Minutes' preference, how does this differ?
 >> Isn't it "allow work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last X minutes?"  But clearly mechanism could be similar
+>>> NOTES: BOINC has both settings.  The 'Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last X Minutes' policy was added in 5.10 in order to try to address the question posed by this page.  However, the scenarios are more complex and this setting needs to be revised.
 
  * Company Y wishes to implement policy that BOINC can run only after 5:30PM when people have gone home, and stop 7:00 AM before people return to work.   Or at Midnight, or at 8:00 PM