Suspend vs. Shutdown

pogeymanz · 2009-05-06 22:54:09

I would hibernate it (suspend to disk). Just make sure that you don't have important documents open and unsaved before you go to bed, for there is always a risk that the resume will fail. I wouldn't worry about the cached memory- I can't imagine it ever being a problem.

I used to suspend to disk my desktop, but it really wasn't that much faster than booting (but I was running openbox- ymmv) and it did fail a few times. I was using the uswsusp package to do it. I assume KDE has its own method which may have worked better for my computer, but I never cared.

patroclo7 · 2009-05-07 09:50:38

If your desktop is going to stay plugged, suspend it to ram: it is a superfast way to be back in a moment where you were the day before. In my recent experience, suspension to ram is nowadays much more reliable and troublefree than (say) one year ago. Also suspension to disk (vanilla or uswsusp) is nowadays quite reliable, but it is not really faster than rebooting, so it is mostly a way to save a snapshot when your machine risks going low of power and suspension to ram is consequently not advisable.

Primoz · 2009-05-13 20:28:23

OK I have no idea what exactly happened, but last time I tried to start my computer from suspesion it started for a while then just turned it self off.
But I did suspend it for cca. 4 times in time span of 1-2 hours. Is there anything like over-susension ?
Anyway I hope it won't happen again.

Hessiess · 2009-05-18 17:01:48

Work out why it is so noisy(fans, HDD, etc) and then fix it. Getting a big heatsick helps a lot.

MoonSwan · 2009-05-18 21:51:18

An option I've not seen mentioned is to set the bios's RTC alarm wake event. It basically lets the computer "wake up" at a specific time say every day. IE Set the RTC alarm for 0600 and every day, your computer will wake up, and if you have auto login on for kde, it will log you in. No waiting, no fuss. Most bios's these days have this capability so poke around for it. It may be useful to you if suspend doesn't work too well on your computer.

MarcosRoriz · 2009-05-18 22:22:56

Guys by suspending and let that waay the whole night you are using energy, right?
If it yes, I think you must shutdown. Earth thanks you.

Anikom15 · 2009-05-18 22:56:39

MarcosRoriz wrote:

Guys by suspending and let that waay the whole night you are using energy, right?
If it yes, I think you must shutdown. Earth thanks you.

Booting up requires more power than leaving it on. Atleast that's what I heard.

thayer · 2009-05-18 23:32:42

I have an Aspire One netbook and it's rarely powered off. I typically suspend-to-ram whether on AC or battery. The amount of power it consumes while suspended is minimal--I don't have exact figures, but I'd wager that it's on par with the consumption of a digital alarm clock (maybe even less).

My wife and I also share a PC though we use it less and less each day. If it were my primary machine, I'd be suspending it too--albeit with a decent surge protector.

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Primoz · 2009-05-20 09:28:33

About the noise. The noisiest of all is the motherboard fan which is "hitting" the end of my graphic card. Foxconn (Winfast) smartly placed pci-e so that the card touches the motherboard fan.
But all other fans aren't silent anyway. The problem is probably that I decided to buy a pre-built computer with cheap fans and stuff so they're noisy.

I was playing with bios option to self-start-up, but I can't set it to start every day; as I have to enter the exact date not just hour... Which is strange.
But I did saw an option for power on with press on a keyboard; don't know if it will work with wireless keyboard though...

Suspending works fine; I'm still shuting it down every night; and Ext4 doesn't cause any "loss" problem even that one time that de-suspension failed and other time it didn't want to shutdown properly...

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