On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:27:39PM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On 20-Dec-07, at 2:17 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>> Again, I suggest you actually look at powerd and pmf. You get ample
>>> warning before we force a shutdown, plenty of time to notify yourself
>>> before it reaches critical state.
>>
>> I have looked at powerd and parts of pmf.
>>>
>
> The problem with what you are suggesting is that depending on the age and 
> condition of the battery, 5 minutes of runtime (or even 5 minutes of 
> suspend time) may be too long. I have an older Powerbook that is on its 
> second battery, where when it reports critical battery I only have about 20 
> seconds if I cancel the shutdown.
>
> Going forward, what we want to do on a critical battery condition is to 
> suspend to disk, but we're not there yet.

On a certain machine, I've tried suspend-to-disk before installing NetBSD.
It needed more than 20 seconds.

	-is
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