Actually, that's not true. You can remove the battery from a laptop and
unplug it as well and hibernated data will still be there because it is
stored on the hard drive. A hibernated computer uses no electricity
whatsoever. The time saving comes from the fact that drivers and startup
programs don't have to be loaded. They are just read from a file on the
hard drive straight into ram and the boot process is therefore skipped.
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>hy,
>thats a good explanation, but one thing is wrong:
>the ram is still under electricity, nothing else. no fan, no disks, no
>video,
>nothing-->no noise. when re-powering no boot is necessary and the computer
>is
>redy in some seconds.
>regards
>
>
>Am Dienstag, 29. Mai 2001 09:49 schrieb James Bond:
> > I am not the original poster of this message, but since I own a laptop
>this
> > is something that I'd like to know how to do as well. I will describe
>the
> > process in hopes that someone knows how.
> >
> > Suspend to RAM or Hibernation, is when the computer copies the contents
>of
> > the RAM of the computer and also usually the video ram to a file on the
> > harddrive, and then powers down the computer completely. The next time
>the
> > computer is turned on, the information is transferred back into RAM from
> > the hard disk and you are right back at the point where you originally
> > hibernated.
> >
> > There are two basic benefits to hibernation as opposed to shutdown. The
> > first is that hibernation is much faster than shuting down and then
> > rebooting. You can hibernate in about 20 seconds (depending on how much
> > RAM the machine has) and resume in another 20 seconds. To fully
>shutdown
> > and reboot a LM 8.0 machine into KDE takes about 5 min (on my computer).
> > The second thing is that you can leave a text editor window and
>hibernate.
> > Then, when you restart you can immediately start editing the text again
> > without having to open any file. It appears right on the screen.
> >
> > I hope this has clarified the question.
> >
> > >On Monday 28 May 2001 12:09, mp wrote:
> > > > under linux mandrake 8 possible?
> > > > thank you
> > >
> > >Ummm Not sure what you want...
> > >
> > >If you put the mount parameter noatime in the file /etc/fstab, then the
> > >disks
> > >will not be spun up to change the data time parameters, and if you set
> > >power
> > >management properly, disks will spin down. Add to that the "lock
>screen"
> > >feature, and you have a computer in hibernation, waiting for a
>password,
> > >except network processes are open.
> > >
> > >So how is the suspend to ram feature different than that? What purpose
> > >does
> > >it accomplish? Linux people are more used to non-stop computing, so we
> > >need
> > >an explanation.
> > >
> > >Civileme
> >
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