On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Hieu D. Bui wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:10:22 +0700
> Gwenhael Le Moine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > How much energy does writing 2 or 3Gio to disk + a cold boot +
> > restoring the 2 or 3Gio consume? From which amount of time does it
> > make more sense to hibernate then to suspend-to-ram? I don't have the
> > tooling necessary to mesure this unfortunately but it's an interesting
> > question.
>
> I do agree with you about this, however, hibernating still has some
> advantages. Firstly, people, which has laptops and/or netbooks with a
> broken battery, can use hibernation to keep their current work and
> restore it at home. Secondly, I sometimes would like to boot into
> another OS and a suspend-to-ram will not work. Finally, when we are in
> some place without power supply and the laptop runs out of battery, we
> can do hibernation to keep our work. For example, my computer
> automatically hibernates when running of energy. It's also worth in
> summer that a lot of areas are blacked out for hours because of energy
> shortage. My laptop can only work for about two or three hours.
>
> When I close unnecessary applications and drop the cache, I just have to
> copy only some hundreds of MB to disk. This process is very fast in
> both hibernating and resuming the system. I can say that it's much
> faster than a normal boot.
>
That said, it depends very much on why and how you use S3
(suspend-to-ram) or S4 (suspend-to-disk).
>
> P/s: I'm currently using tuxonice for hibernation
>
> D. Hieu
>
Me, too ;-)
Regards,
Yang
--
Dương "Yang" Hà Nguyễn
Web log: http://cmpitg.wordpress.com/
"Life is a hack"
[ Do not send me Microsoft Office attachments, please.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ]
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GIT/C/ED/L d++ s-:-(:) !a C+++(++++) ULU++++>$ P-- L+++>$ E+++
W++>+++ N+ o+ K w--- O- M@ V- PS+ PE++ Y+>++ PGP++ t+ 5 X+ R-
tv+ b+++ DI+++ D++ G+++ e* h* r* y-
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
_______________________________________________
POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines
_______________________________________________
HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/
HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/
HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
