On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:52:30 +0200 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:16:36 -0500 (EST) > > > > Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Or hibernate? > > > > > > At least on my system hibernate takes as much time as a reboot. > > > > btw this is a very fundamental property of hibernate. You need to > > do all disk IO to get the system state to disk. And then at resume, > > you need to do all disk IO to get the state from disk again. That's > > twice ;) > > > > This is compounded by the property that a hibernate tends to flush > > at least half the disk cache (it has to, to get space to work in), > > which you then need to page right back in, so even when you're > > back, the first minute or two sucks badly. > > > > I suspect you will always be able to boot faster than you can > > hibernate+resume. > > I have very different experience. For example comparable (from grub > going away to KDE + my bunch of default apps running and usable) > numbers just taken from the desktop box in front of which I'm right > now (AMD64 3200, 2G RAM, SATA, F-9 x86_64 KDE): > > - shutdown: 28 sec > - fresh boot: 66 sec see this is the problem; this can be 5 to 10 seconds, and should be. that's the point of this discussion -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
