how safe is suspend?

Matt3o · 2007-10-08 09:55:15

I have a desktop PC, when I quit working I usually put the PC in suspend (to ram) mode instead of turning it off. Once a week (usually Fri or Sat) I finally give it a rest and turn it off for the night. I am wondering how much safe is suspend/resume process under (arch)linux. I noticed that after a resume from suspend certain tasks do not behave as expected (eg: the PC do not restart but hangs at "now rebooting").

.:B:. · 2007-10-08 10:11:29

Give pm-utils a shot, it's the successor to suspend, and I have good experiences with it.

Matt3o · 2007-10-08 10:14:19

B wrote:

Give pm-utils a shot, it's the successor to suspend, and I have good experiences with it.

yes, I am using pm-utils (I should have been more informative, sorry). It seems to work fine, except for few minor issues, but I was wondering if it is considered safe to suspend to ram instead of turning the pc off.

.:B:. · 2007-10-08 11:41:15

Of course it is, it is bound by the ACPI implementation. Check /var/log/pm-suspend.og for pointers. You are not using the suspend2 patched kernels are you? Google your computer model to see if you need some hacks to make pm-utils work correctly.

Matt3o · 2007-10-08 12:14:27

thanks for your help. No, I don't have suspend2. The pm log gives just an error about "setsysfont" not found (but I don't think this can be a big problem). I did not installed acpid, could it be a problem?

Arch Linux

#1 2007-10-08 09:55:15

how safe is suspend?

#2 2007-10-08 10:11:29

Re: how safe is suspend?

#3 2007-10-08 10:14:19

Re: how safe is suspend?

#4 2007-10-08 11:41:15

Re: how safe is suspend?

#5 2007-10-08 12:14:27

Re: how safe is suspend?

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