darkwake flag has no apparent effect

[sakasune]

Hi all, I recently updated my old 10.7 rig to 10.8.4 with a fresh install (specs at end). Everything went off without a hitch, used to Multibeast to apply the DSDT for my mobo, install audio (ALC888b/887, with DSDT, Legacy), install Ethernet (Lnx2Mac's RealtekRTL81xx), and install the SATA drives so my drives appear internal.

So came time to tackle the sleep issue - I thought auto-sleep was broken but apparently have to wait another 1-2 minutes after display sleep for the system to sleep...I'm okay with that.

Darkwake on the other hand, I could not fix. I prefer to wake up my system with a WOL magic packet, because it may be a few days between when I need to access remotely or need to access via WAN. But I tried all possible darkwake flags I've read about (no, 0, 8, 10) and it has no apparent effect on the system - after auto-sleep or manual sleep, it will still wake itself up every ~2 minutes (spinning up the fans and HDDs), and go back to sleep after ~30 seconds, and repeat. I also tried adding the darkwake flag to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist (I first tried only /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist).

Anyone have advice or guidance on the situation?


Mobo: Gigabyte P55M-UD2 (F11 bios)
CPU: Core i5 (don't remember specific model, 750 maybe? definitely 1st gen) @ 2.8GHz
HDDs: Western Digital (1-640GB for OS X, 1-1000TB for Win7/8)
Optical drive: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S (because I recall some DVD drives affected sleep a while ago)
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[Going Bald]

Have you checked your console log to see what it is that is waking the system?

 

[sakasune]

The wake reason is "RTC (Alarm)"

Also, here's the output from "pmset -g log"

9/18/13 1:58:57 PM EDT   Sleep               	Software Sleep Sleep: Using AC                                             	84 secs
9/18/13 1:58:57 PM EDT   SlowResponse        	Kernel: Response from powerd is slow                                       	          	16000 ms
9/18/13 1:58:57 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 73(apsd) Released ApplePushServiceTask "com.apple.apsd-waitingformessages-push.apple.com" 00:00:41  id:0xc00000181 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 1:58:57 PM EDT   WakeRequests        	Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=70]
9/18/13 1:58:57 PM EDT   WakeRequests        	PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=70.00
9/18/13 2:00:21 PM EDT   DarkWake            	DarkWake due to RTC/Maintenance: Using AC                                  	0 secs
9/18/13 2:00:21 PM EDT   Sleep               	Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC                                          	124 secs
9/18/13 2:00:25 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 17(powerd) Created BackgroundTask "Powerd - Wait for client BackgroundTask assertions" 00:00:04  id:0xc00000196 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 2:00:31 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 17(powerd) TimedOut BackgroundTask "Powerd - Wait for client BackgroundTask assertions" 00:00:10  id:0xc00000196 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 2:00:31 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 17(powerd) Released BackgroundTask "Powerd - Wait for client BackgroundTask assertions" 00:00:10  id:0xc00000196 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 2:00:31 PM EDT   Assertions          	Summary- Aggregate:0x40 Using AC
9/18/13 2:00:37 PM EDT   SlowResponse        	PMConnection: Response from mDNSResponder is slow (powercaps:0x0)          	          	15999 ms
9/18/13 2:00:37 PM EDT   WakeRequests        	Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=94]
9/18/13 2:00:37 PM EDT   WakeRequests        	PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=94.00
9/18/13 2:02:25 PM EDT   DarkWake            	DarkWake due to RTC/Maintenance: Using AC                                  	0 secs
9/18/13 2:02:25 PM EDT   Sleep               	Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC                                          	124 secs
9/18/13 2:02:25 PM EDT   SlowResponse        	Kernel: Response from powerd is slow                                       	          	16002 ms
9/18/13 2:02:33 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 17(powerd) Created BackgroundTask "Powerd - Wait for client BackgroundTask assertions" 00:00:07  id:0xc000001a1 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 2:02:35 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 17(powerd) TimedOut BackgroundTask "Powerd - Wait for client BackgroundTask assertions" 00:00:10  id:0xc000001a1 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 2:02:35 PM EDT   Assertions          	PID 17(powerd) Released BackgroundTask "Powerd - Wait for client BackgroundTask assertions" 00:00:10  id:0xc000001a1 Aggregate:0x1040
9/18/13 2:02:35 PM EDT   Assertions          	Summary- Aggregate:0x40 Using AC
9/18/13 2:02:41 PM EDT   SlowResponse        	PMConnection: Response from mDNSResponder is slow (powercaps:0x0)          	          	15998 ms
9/18/13 2:02:41 PM EDT   WakeRequests        	Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=94]
9/18/13 2:02:41 PM EDT   WakeRequests        	PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=94.00

...and it just repeats every two minutes

 

[sakasune]

I just want to add, if I disable all services in the Sharing panel of System Preferences, then it doesn't wake up every two minutes. I suspect that is by design, but defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to accomplish.

Also, further reading online (I thought I read it all yesterday) revealed that a Mac is supposed to "darkwake" every two hours to re-register with the network, but my Hackintosh and my real Mac Mini (running Lion, with darkwake=0 in Boot.plist) both wake up every two minutes (perhaps because I don't use an Apple router?)