On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:51:34AM -0400, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > Lennart, thanks for reply. > > My remarks below. > > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lennart Sorensen > To: Giles Orr ; GTALUG Talk > Cc: Steve Petrie, P.Eng. > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:27 PM > Subject: Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker > Recipe; > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > It's probably too late to convince you of this (as I suspect it would > > Well I discovered on my laptop a few years ago that suspend to disk takes > a very long time when you put 24GB ram in a laptop and use a 5400rpm disk. > > An SSD makes it much better of course. > > *** Nice tip. I'll be sure to use the SSD not only for fast software loading, > but also for suspend workspace.
It was obvious in restrospect of course: 100MB/s disk speed (if lucky) and 24000MB ram = at least 240 seconds to write ram to disk. Resume was equally painful. It was faster to shutdown and boot normally and open my programs again. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk