How can I avoid computer sleep when CPU is busy

Premio · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2013 Posts: 1

Hello I am new to Gentoo, just installled fresh system with Gnome2 and love it.However, I set some power management on my PC so it doesn't consume so much energy when idle. I expected that it won't go sleep when CPU is all the time busy (compiling). So I am looking for some hints or tweaks which would make system decide based on actual CPU usage, not just based on my input via keyboard an mouse, My apologies in advance if this was already spoken somewhere but I really googled for some time and found nothing related. So far I was able to find all I needed thanks to great documentation of Gentoo but this issue makes me sad :roll:

'cause I don't want my computer to run all night when compiling finished after 3 hous in the other hand I want it to finish and dont go sleep when there is still much to do.. (compile)

Thank you for understanding

TomWij · Retired Dev Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Posts: 1553

... disable power management ... ; emerge --keep-going ... ; ... enable power management ... ; shutdown -h now