PowerNap is a configurable daemon that will bring a running system to a lower power state according to a set of configuration preferences. It acts as a sort of "screensaver" for servers, watching the process table for activity rather than the keyboard or mouse. PowerNap will run $ACTION when none of $PROCESSES have executed for some number of $ABSENCE seconds. For instance, PowerNap can automatically "pm-suspend" a system if no instance of "kvm" runs for some contiguous block of "300" seconds.
an ebuild would be really useful, not only for servers and such. a scenario i could imagine of is an htpc for example.
Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild submission. We also apologize for not being able to accommodate you in a timely manner. There are simply too many new packages. Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The sunrise overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to commit to and all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry into the overlay. So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this and submit your ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =) Thanks, On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team, Markos. [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ [2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq