On mer., 2016-04-06 at 11:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hibernation is really quite nasty when you have to have a fairly big > special partition for it, and shrink your memory down. Writing things > to disk was a whole lot more reasonable back in the days when laptops > had 16MB of memory.
Actually you just have to have a swap partition, which people still set as more or less the ram size, I think, so all in all it works (especially if people hibernate without the ram completely used). > > I really wonder how many people use it with a modern laptop and > distro. I doubt it's much faster than just rebooting the whole system > anyway, and there are lots of downsides. I quite never hibernate on my laptop (it wouldn't work anyway since I boot wit kaslr and have PAX_SANITIZE), but I use hibernation on desktops where suspend to ram doesn't work because of radeon or nvidia graphic card (actually suspend usually works, resume doesn't). If/when suspend to ram works fine, I think hibernation is mostly useless. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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