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Old 08-15-2015, 05:44 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
What it looks like to me is that sickle starts a 20-second timer when it is first run, and whenever it receives a ping it restarts the timer at 10 seconds. If sickle is suspended then after resuming it restarts the timer at 10 seconds. If the timer ever expires then sickle triggers a reboot.

If that is how it works then the patch I posted in post #13 should be completely safe, as it just increases those timer durations.
Isn't that constantly ping and resetting consuming a "lot" of power ?
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