On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: ... | >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some | | I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk | from http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/. Then pressing fn-a will | suspend to disk. I found this to be a nearly worthless feature | though. Writing out a 384MB+ memory image takes a several minutes, | and reading it back in takes much longer than booting from scratch. | Even with the normal suspend, I have left my laptop asleep for 24 | hours and still only used less than 1/3 of one battery.
Hmm, yeah, that makes sense. I think I'll try it anyways because the ability to not drain battery power while still leaving your work open sounds nice. One thing to note though : if I close the laptop too quickly after shutting down it isn't really shutdown yet and is in suspend(-to-RAM) mode. When I open it again it loads up, finishes shutting down, and takes quite a while to get anything useful out of it :-). -D
