Don't let your computer go to sleep too fast...
Hi All,
In a follow up from another forum about a computer with a solid state drive that was performing miserably slow despite plentiful space and no malware...
The problem turned out to be that of power settings which made the computer go to sleep within a minute on batteries and 15 minutes on mains. I've seen an identical problem in a computer with an old-fashioned gyroscopic drive but it did not immediately occur to me that latest solid state drives would also be affected. Then why would not they? Modern computers do A LOT of background maintenance and flexible AI technologies make that maintenance take place when a computer is not being actively used or is running under low load. Updates, drive cleanup, security scans, drive data repositioning are just a few that need to take place sooner or later. It makes no difference if this is a PC or a Mac the myriads of tasks are very similar. So, a computer that has very little time to itself will eventually start to run those tasks as soon as it has ANY chance of doing that and that means WHILST a user is trying to get some work done. It is a bit difficult to recommend a good amount of time to give the computer on its own to "waste" the energy and may need to be a bit of a trial and error but if you have tried everything else and the computer is still inexplicably slow then try setting power management to prevent your computer from going to sleep at all on mains power. Let it run for 24h and see if things have improved. Certainly worth noting that going to sleep on mains power after just 10-15 minutes or less is not a good idea. Try 1-2 hours instead. You can let the screen to be shut but let the computer rumble on for a bit longer.
In a follow up from another forum about a computer with a solid state drive that was performing miserably slow despite plentiful space and no malware...
The problem turned out to be that of power settings which made the computer go to sleep within a minute on batteries and 15 minutes on mains. I've seen an identical problem in a computer with an old-fashioned gyroscopic drive but it did not immediately occur to me that latest solid state drives would also be affected. Then why would not they? Modern computers do A LOT of background maintenance and flexible AI technologies make that maintenance take place when a computer is not being actively used or is running under low load. Updates, drive cleanup, security scans, drive data repositioning are just a few that need to take place sooner or later. It makes no difference if this is a PC or a Mac the myriads of tasks are very similar. So, a computer that has very little time to itself will eventually start to run those tasks as soon as it has ANY chance of doing that and that means WHILST a user is trying to get some work done. It is a bit difficult to recommend a good amount of time to give the computer on its own to "waste" the energy and may need to be a bit of a trial and error but if you have tried everything else and the computer is still inexplicably slow then try setting power management to prevent your computer from going to sleep at all on mains power. Let it run for 24h and see if things have improved. Certainly worth noting that going to sleep on mains power after just 10-15 minutes or less is not a good idea. Try 1-2 hours instead. You can let the screen to be shut but let the computer rumble on for a bit longer.
