Hi. On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 21:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > Does that mean you never ever power off your laptop (assuming you have > > one), and the battery never runs out? Surely you must power it off > > completely sometimes? > > So? The bootup isn't that much worse than a disk suspend/resume, and it's > reliable. > > And actually, I don't use laptops much. I use mostly desktops, and STR > works fine on at least some of them. In contrast, doing some > suspend-to-disk thing would just be insane and idiotic. If I have to wait > for half a minute and have a slow system even after that because my git > trees aren't in the cache, I really might as well just shut them off. > > In contrast, STR means they are quiet and don't waste energy when I don't > use them, but they're instantly available when I care. HUGE difference. > > I really think suspend-to-disk is just a total waste of my time.
Ah. That's because you're using [u]swsusp. If you used Suspend2, your git trees would be in the cache, your system wouldn't be slow and you'd still be back up in that half a minute or so - probably less time. Give it a try for a week, and then go back to rebooting. After that, tell me rebooting is better and I've wasted the last 5 or 6 years improving the code. Regards, Nigel
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