Waking up delay?

Question

Hi , I have my HD set to sleep in my preferences. Im on an imac G5 Isight 17".
To wake my conputer I either push the space bar, or click on the mouse, and they both take what seems like eternity to wake up.
I first get a sound from the computer which I imagine is the HD waking up, and the screen stays black during this process; that takes about 4-5 seconds. Then, I get a blue screen for 1-2 seconds, then finally my desktop.
But,then I'll get a spinning beach ball for a few seconds, and the computer sort of halts for a bit while I try to get back to work.
Afterward, everything seems fine, and working correctly.
But, is there a problem beginning to arise with my system, because I dont remember it taking this long to wake up, even with the HD set to sleep in the Energy settings in the Preferences.
Anyone?

Answer 1

Hi again
in your first post you said:
"even with the HD set to sleep in the Energy settings in the Preferences."
my (G5 - 20")iMAc takes about 1 or 2 seconds to wake up.
The longer you work with some applications, the more memory they take. I could imagine that this is the problem you have, when you let run the iMac for a long time, interrupted only by sleep-periods: if it gets awake, it has to get all the stuff back into order. but i'm afraid that my picture might be too, much too naive...
Don't forget by the way, that the screen and the processor is in powersafe-mode, and that normal conditions must be restored.
About the disk: if you have this type of large memory situation, then part of the needed stuff is written to disk. it might well be that in such a situation the iMac first has to wait until the disk is spinning up and reading teh needed info, before it goes to the other busyness like putting the screen light on...
you can have a look at your memory situation with Activity Monitor (Applications/Uitilies) . Try to check whether you can make a correlation with an overloaded memory and a long wake-up period.
hope this helps. Post back if you have more problems.
thomas