On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 22:37 +0800, Ian-Xue Li wrote: > I've been using pm-suspend for temporarily shutting down the computer > for later use, but now I raised the question whether it is safe or > stable to do so at a constant basis. That is, seldom real reboots and > often just suspend. > > For me the ratio of reboot and suspend is like 1:5. As others have replied, I suspend regularly, getting days or maybe a week or so of 'uptime' on my laptop before bothering to reboot (normally kernel or X related, since i use nvidia's driver restarting X doesn't ALWAYS work). > > As you know that suspend don't really unmount the drives to read-only > before it goes into suspension, when resumption had failed, you usually > need to repair it and check for errors. This is at least the case for me > when I use ext4. > > Even if it did resume successfully, I started to wonder if it also would > harm the filesystems. No, no harm noticed. What I DON'T do is suspend with many or even any programs open (besides background daemons and stuff like conky/rainlendar). No reason to, I'm anal that way to Alt-F4 everything first. This has the side benefit of protecting me against a possible non-resume (which hasn't happened in months). > > I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using > ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is > really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using > them. > Stable and safe for me. Now, talking about HIBERNATE, on the other hand....
