This is the second time I have seen this type of activity. At exactly 25 minutes my device wakes up, although it could be a service that I haven’t stopped or needs attending to. On most days, I would wake up my device and turn off standby for the day, however I’ve left it on standby since yesterday …

Thanks for sharing this information Ralphael, have other users experienced the same thing?

I cannot check logs, but indeed, the box started to wake up regularly a day ago, after a few days of behaving (almost) as it should while in sleep mode. Are you guys really working on the issue? Can’t be that difficult.

Mine does … I thought it was my MyCloud , but I guess there are other also. This started happening this week.

Does setting it to run non-stop for a few hours (a day) calm your boxes down? Seems like it helped me. But then again, still wakes up for no reason every now and then. With the stories re heartbleed bug, this seems to annoy me even more. :wink:

luizfermiranda wrote: Same here. Same here :frowning:

me too. I sent many reports to the support, they will come back to me if they know something new about it. It even wakes up when it’s only connected to the router without internet access.

I had this “phenomenon” as well and assume that it is a lack of memory (aka swapping) issue. Since I moved my “swap” partition to an external usb drive, the problem does not occur anymore (at least not in the last 3 days). Here’s what I did: Insert usb drive blkid (to figure out which path the…

bjoern just curious if you are one of the many having issues with the wdmcservd & wdphotomerged processes? if so is it any better after moving the swap off the internal disk?

I don’t need DLNA and deactivated those processes (wdmcservd & wdphotomerged) long before I had the idea of moving swap to usb. So I cannot tell if that becomes any better but I assume that those services still need to access the drive from time to time, no matter if they swap or not. Apache and Rsy…

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