On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:17:29 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > I just found a machine which will resume after suspend to memory, using
> > the mainline kernel (no suspend2 patch).
> >
> > On resume I was looking at the uptime output, and it was about six
> > minutes, FAR longer than the time since resume. So the topic for
> > discussion is, should the uptime be
> > - time sine the original boot
> > - total uptime since first boot, not counting the time suspended
> > - time since resume
> > - some other time around six minutes
> >
> > Any of the first three could be useful and "right" for some casesm thus
> > discussion invited.
> >
> My ibook has always been able to suspend to RAM. For a long while,
> uptime was shown as the time since the last boot. At some point,
> maybe about a year ago, this was "corrected" to show time since boot
> _less_ time suspended.
>
> To be clear, the ibook suspends when I close the lid and resumes
> when I open it. Uptime used to be convenient, because I could work
> out when I'd last booted.
man uptime:
uptime - tell how long the system has been running
I claim that the system is not running when it is suspended,
so the suspension time should not be included in uptime.
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~Randy
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