danco Wrote: > Waking a system doesn't seem to me anything like rebooting. Everything > is back to where it was before sleep within a few seconds. This is on a > Mac. I don't know how WOL is implemented on a Mac, but on a PC clone, the entire memory and CPU are powered down, the disk is powered down, almost all but a small amount of logic on the network card are powered down.
When the "magic packet" comes in, the network card, which has a wire to fire up the power supply, yanks the wire and the power supply comes up. Then comes BIOS boot, then the operating system is started. IF the operating system went away by hibernating, then the hibernation image is read in from disk. Otherwise, a full reboot occurs. Even a hibernation image of a 512MB machine is not fast, and a full reboot slower still. Meanwhile, the person at the SLIM remote has figured that the Slimserver has died, walked upstairs, and rebooted the server manually :-) Like I said, I don't see the point. Just spin down the hard disk and you're get 90% of the savings and 90% better response time when you do click the remote. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18144 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
