On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:26:10 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Du, 15 ian 12, 18:23:22, richard wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > It may seem a daft question, BUT, what is the exact process when > > suspending ? > > > > On a laptop it doesn't matter as power is kept on when either the lid is > > shut or suspended, the same action. > > However, on a mains powered machine suspend will power off, I'm guessing a > > write to ram and umount any active device ?? > > Anything written to ram will be lost, does it really mater now if running > > daemons & services are just terminated instead of being properly shutdown ? > > > > Now with gnome3 shell ALT has to be held don to go to the power off/restart > > menu, > > I wonder how many just do a rapid power off with suspend ? > > Your question is a bit vague to me. Are you asking about Suspend-to-RAM > (also known as S3)? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_RAM > > Or is this about Suspend to Disk (also known as Hibernate, S4)? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_disk > > Anyway, as you might notice in those Wikipedia articles, there is no > difference between types of computers. What effect closing the lid on a > laptop has is usually configurable (BIOS and/or OS). > > Kind regards, > Andrei Hi Andrei You didn't quite understand what I was asking :( If you suspend to RAM, S3, which I hope unmounts the hard drives. as suspend is set to power off the computer, does it really matter is running daemons and services are terminated by removing power ? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120116085353.26f60...@lappy.g8jvm.com
