On 2/22/2011 10:44 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > My previously mentioned point still stands though. Many people close the lid > of > the laptop, stick it into a bag, and start walking. Considering the I/O > intensive nature of the hibernation process, that practice can damage the hard > disk pretty much.
Laptop hard disks are generally built to withstand this. Whenever my wife moves her macbook around too much I can hear the distinctive click of the emergency head unload. This also is of course, not an issue when the default lid action is to suspend rather than hibernate. > The gauge isn't broken. Well, not completely, anyway. The only issue is that > it > jumps from 5% directly to 0% without passing 4%-1%. But on the other hand, > while > there's enough power to last for half a day without running out of battery, > there isn't always enough power to finish hibernation before it keels over and > dies (starting from 0%). It sounds like it is estimating 5% remaining capacity, then realizes that, based on the terminal voltage, the battery is actually dead. Hence, it needs a good calibration cycle. > But like I said, this is mostly due to > the current hibernation implementation in Linux taking too long to stuff the > RAM > into the swap. A quicker, more reliable implementation would do the trick. That certainly would be nice. > But anyway, back on topic: I don't believe we should get rid of the > hibernation > option. Suspend and hibernate have very important differences, and both of > them > have their own fair share of use-cases. Agreed. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
