alt Hacker NewsI had the same thought, and while this is a complete guess, it passes my sniff test personally. It’s possible that when this setting is not enabled, those wake events are not coalesced into hourly wakeups, but instead happen arbitrarily throughout the night. That would immediately lead to the behavior described.
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duderific • 07/31/2025
It took me a while and a couple of re-reads to parse out the same conclusion. Basically they're batched instead of happening continuously.
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chicagobob • 07/31/2025
Exactly what the author meant to say.
Yeah, sounds like it's really poorly labeled, and should instead be more like "Consolidate required maintenance tasks into hourly wake sessions"
That would make it much clearer that enabling it = fewer wakes.