My iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) randomly wakes up, up to 9 times a day. I'm using El Capitan 10.11.3 (15D21)
.
A syslog | grep -i "Wake reason"
shows the following many times:
Apr 5 00:02:50 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.SleepTimer (SleepTimer)
Apr 5 00:02:52 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
Apr 6 18:55:24 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.PME (User)
Apr 6 18:55:28 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
Apr 6 20:37:16 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.SleepTimer (SleepTimer)
Apr 6 20:37:19 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
Apr 6 21:20:03 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1
Apr 6 21:20:04 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Button (0x03)
Apr 6 22:31:19 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.SleepTimer (SleepTimer)
Apr 6 22:31:21 Nikolajs-iMac kernel[0] <Notice>: [HID] [ATC] AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
There aren't any usb devices connected, nor any bluetooth devices, except the keyboard and mouse.
The most obvious reasons, power nap
and wake on lan
, aren't turned on. I've already tried to toggle them but it didn't help. What else could this be?
I've googled for answers for a long time, many times, already, but I couldn't find any solution to this. The problem already persists for at least two major OSX versions.
Thanks a lot!
Update:
➜ ~ pmset -g assertions
2016-04-12 18:30:18 +0200
Assertion status system-wide:
BackgroundTask 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 1
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 1
NetworkClientActive 0
Listed by owning process:
pid 526(storedownloadd): [0x000049be000112c7] 143:31:30 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "URLConnection in progress"
pid 100(hidd): [0x0000bf4b00091335] 00:18:20 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
Timeout will fire in 219 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x8=BT-HID
id=501 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01.01.70, 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleHSBluetoothDevice
id=502 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01.01.70, 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler
Update 2: I managed to enter the pmset -g assertions
right after the imac woke up last night. Here is the output:
➜ ~ pmset -g assertions
2016-04-16 22:40:16 +0200
Assertion status system-wide:
BackgroundTask 1
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 0
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
InteractivePushServiceTask 1
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 1
NetworkClientActive 0
InternalPreventSleep 1
Listed by owning process:
pid 62023(AddressBookSourceSync): [0x000159c300010639] 00:00:06 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Address Book Source Sync"
Timeout will fire in 1794 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
pid 204(backupd-helper): [0x000159c3000b062b] 00:00:06 BackgroundTask named: "backupd-helper"
pid 186(coreaudiod): [0x000159c8000101e8] 00:00:00 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.audio.AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,2:0.context.preventuseridlesleep"
Created for PID: 249.
pid 62024(AddressBookSourceSync): [0x000159c30001063b] 00:00:06 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Address Book Source Sync"
Timeout will fire in 1794 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
pid 625(UserEventAgent): [0x000159c3000b063a] 00:00:06 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.AddressBook.ScheduledSync"
Created for PID: 62023.
pid 526(storedownloadd): [0x000049be000112c7] 243:41:28 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "URLConnection in progress"
pid 62025(softwareupdate_notify_agent): [0x000159c3000b063d] 00:00:05 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.softwareupdate.NotifyAgentAssertion"
pid 79(apsd): [0x000159c80012064e] 00:00:01 InteractivePushServiceTask named: "com.apple.apsd-lastpowerassertionlinger"
Timeout will fire in 86399 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
pid 56(powerd): [0x000159b9000d061b] 00:00:16 InternalPreventSleep named: "com.apple.powermanagement.acwakelinger"
Timeout will fire in 29 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x8=BT-HID
id=501 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01.01.70, 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleHSBluetoothDevice
id=502 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01.01.70, 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler
Best Answer
A good first step towards debugging power management-related issues on OS X is:
It can take a little practice to read the output, but it can lead to finding processes that are erroneously making power management assertions against the kernel.
It can also be an iterative process — keep running it at appropriate times, ad see what crops up!
The
pmset
command can do a whole lot more to control OS X power management; see thepmset(1)
man page.Edit: I have since found a way to determine if there are any processes keeping a Mac awake using only GUI tools. (Tested only on OS X 10.11):
/Applications/Utilities
).This works in any of Activity Monitor’s five tabs, but you have to enable the Preventing Sleep column individually for each tab.