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Re: [LUG] Moblin now booting in 16 seconds

 

At Sat 04 Apr 2009 21:42:30 BST, "Benjamin M. A'Lee"  
<bma-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:29:36PM +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:51 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> > > Seriously though, why is everyone still rebooting?
>>
>> Because for a home network of adsl router, firewall, switch, home
>> server, 4 desktops in operation most days with speakers and monitors, 2
>> printers, scanner ... the electricity hit of not switching them off when
>> no one is using them is Quite Significant!!
>
> Suspend-to-Disk. Uses no power, starts back up in a couple of seconds,
> and everything’s exactly as you left it.

What distro are you using?

With KUbuntu Intrepid, a cold boot to usable desktop is 85s on my  
laptop. Restoring after hibernate takes around 3 minutes to return to  
a usable desktop. The desktop is there after around 90s, but unusable  
due to continued disk thrashing for another couple of minutes (I timed  
it a couple of days ago).

I don't call that "starts back up in a couple of seconds".

OTOH, if I use "Standby", then it really does resume in a couple of  
seconds, but obviously it's consuming power (even if not much) in the  
mean time.

Anthony
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