I assume that the real difference in folks' minds between S3 and
hibernation is the 'belt + suspenders' protection of your session
surviving a power outage.  But I didn't know that there was such a small
difference in terms of actual power savings.  Knowing this now, I'm
tempted to re-jigg SrvrPowerCtrl to offer just "sleep", ala OS X.  Users
could specify S3 or hibernation in the settings.

What do you think?  Would 'simpler is better' really be better here?

My own hardware setup is complicated by the use of a PS2+USB KVM
switch.  I've found that I've needed to disable every wakeup option in
BIOS except for nic/pci/magic packet.

Windows 7, by the way, implements 'hybrid sleep' (i.e. S3 with a
hibernation image backup) by default.  On my system, default Win7 sleep
takes about 30 seconds to happen.  Switching to straight S3 sleep
requires the user to drill down through three layers of windows settings
to disable 'Allow hybrid sleep'.


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