Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón:

I meant you can hibernate your computer with any amount of ram
available, there are still restoring speed gains in some computers.
Your mileage may vary.

But you also need as much space on the HDD to store the RAM content,
which I don’t really do.

Neither do I. I do not use hibernation at all.

My point was just stating the fact that it could be useful under some
environments/setups regardless the amount of installed memory.

This is why on systems with lots of RAM there is no gain in speed by
hibernating vs. restarting + session saving.

I have 8 GiB of ram and a cold start takes some minutes :-)

Booting to the login screeen takes ~35–40 seconds here. Plus another
half minute to load the DE. Usually I am using normal standby (aka
suspend to RAM). Powerdevil has no function to disable that feature,
which is why I want to disable it one level down in the hierarchy.

You mean disable at BIOS level? :-?

Another reason is that – as mentioned – sometimes I activate it by
accident because the profile popup is right on top of the Hibernate
button. Sometimes, that popup disappears right before I click it, hence
instead of changing power profile, the laptop takes two or three minutes
to recognise that there is not enough space and come back. Yesterday it
so happened. Amarok was still playing music, but at some point I was
unable to change screens anymore (Shift+Alt+Fx). Only a SysRq+REISUB
helped.

KDE should not trigger power savings unless you configure for doing so.
What you can do is hide/remove the icon you are clicking unconsciously
that enables hibernation in your system.

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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