On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 07:59 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > Essentially, hibernation is a method of writing the contents of RAM > and the CPU registers to the swap space, then powering down the > computer. When the computer comes back on, it reloads the RAM and the > CPU registers from the hard drive, and you can carry on from where you > left off. ... > > This is as opposed to suspend, which preserves the contents of RAM and > only writes a little bit of additional information to RAM required to > preserve the system state, then shuts down everything except the RAM. > This is much faster than hibernation, but it does require that the RAM > be kept powered. If you lose the power, your suspend image is lost, > but resuming from suspend is much faster than resuming from > hibernation.
Then you have funny things, like: A laptop that will suspend and wake up, but goes permanently into a coma if you try to hibernate then wake up. The converse would seem a more likely scenario, but not with my laptop. A few times I've managed to get it to un-hibernate, but that took almost as long as a cold boot, only having the advantage of being able to resume things I'd been doing, previously. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
