On 06 Mar 2012 at 17:35:22, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 06.03.2012 22:49, schrieb Rex Dieter: > > Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > >> It appears that among some kernel maintainers there's an opinion that > >> the hibernate (suspend to disk) capability is of insufficient interest > >> to users to justify the difficulty of maintenance. > > > > It's not an issue about users' interest at all. Obviously its a useful > > feature. > > on machines these days? > > you can guess how long it takes dump 16 GB to disk and load > it compared with a full boot between 10 and 30 seconds (30 > seconds with a LOT of services like mail, www, mysql...) >
If you do a fresh boot you lose your current state....and that is valuable. So hibernate (for long periods of down time, for example for a long flight) is very useful. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
