Very slow to go on sleep, mac mini

My Mac mini, running OS 10.6.8, goes to sleep very slowly-- recent change. any ideas?Browser us usually Firifox.

Do you have any peripherals attached that may be slow to sleep? If so try detaching them to see if that speeds things up.

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Hi,
After months of nagging from my IT colleagues I have just bought a Mac mini, just upgraded to Leopard and am just getting to grips with how it functions. (very impressed to date now I have a "proper operting system" :o) )I am using it in my lounge connected to my Plasma TV. I have enabled Screeen sharing and can access it succesfully from my windows machines using VNC viewer free edition. The colour and picture quality is excellent however it won't allow me to connect when the machine is asleep. I also have Vine VNC server which I am sure would go to sleep and let me connect using VNC however it doens't seem to sleep with Vine anymore and I also get two icons appear in the dock. The screen quality appear to be much better with Screen sharing so I'd rather use that than Vine. I could switch sleeping off howevere I don't use the Mac and would like to let it sleep. I was a bit nervous about posting here for the first time incase I get "abuse" but my other Mac users assure somebody will know the answer. I have some other questions so I'll post these on the site in the relevent areas now I'm registered.
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Clarkerz

Clarkerz...Wondering the same thing. No "abuse" from my direction. This is a great question I am also trying to find a solution for.
I often work remotely between my home office work horse (g4 tower) and my 17" MacBook Pro. Files are often duplicated between the systems...and having one access point (screen sharing) is great. However, I am wondering the same thing. I hate to leave the slave computer (in most cases this is my G4 tower) on permanently in the event I happen to need to share in.
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I have confirmed both by information from the OS and some tests with command line tools, that the fusion drive itself is a success and absolutely working fine.
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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
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For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Dear All,
We've just got a new (2010) MacMini which is being used as a central media server, and being administered remotely via ARD 3.3.2.
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Hello, how are you.
What happen if I put Mac Mini to sleep (rest) all the time (always)?
What are about secondary effects?
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I experience a weird problem since some days which gives me a headache. Following situation:
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hi
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Order Date: Apr 14, 2012
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