Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-04 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 03 January 2014, Richard Vickery sent: > Then the question is: How do you boot up from suspend - is there a > special way to boot up after this command to continue working with the > data? Are you asking if I'm doing it wrong, or generally asking how to wake up the computer?

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
command > rather than saving and booting up? and How does it know that to > look for the memory? In my case, it was much quicker to resume my laptop from suspend or hibernate than do a cold boot. Plus I can resume back to everything that I was in the middle of doin

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-03 Thread Richard Vickery
memory? > > In my case, it was much quicker to resume my laptop from suspend or > hibernate than do a cold boot. Plus I can resume back to everything > that I was in the middle of doing. > > But, I've used other computers where resuming took just as long as a > norma

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-03 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 01 January 2014, Richard Vickery sent: > I might find "hibernate" on my own: why would a user use this command > rather than saving and booting up? and How does it know that to > look for the memory? In my case, it was much quicker to resume my lap

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-03 Thread Tim
Rahul Sundaram: >> Because it is part of pm-utils and pm stands for power management. Robert Moskowitz: > Oh, that makes perfect sense. Sarcasm or "aha!"? I'd be sarcastic, when it comes to something like - let's abbreviate "power management" to a needs-to-be-guessed at "pm," but combined with

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-03 Thread Tim
Heinz Diehl: >> My whole family uses Linux and has used hibernation regularly. None of >> us has encountered problems so far... Robert Moskowitz: > It seems to be rather hardware related. Some works fine, others not. > My old HP 2400 was great with it. Not so much my Lenovo x120e. I concur.

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread poma
On 02.01.2014 23:23, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > >> On 02.01.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> [Hibernation] >>> Note however that Linux support for this is pretty limited/ buggy and I >>> would recommend you don't do it. >> >> My whole f

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/02/2014 06:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz mailto:r...@htt-consult.com>> wrote: man pm-hibernate Don't ask me why the pm

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> man pm-hibernate >> >> Don't ask me why the pm-; it does make it hard to find. >> > > > man -k hibernate > > > So now I have to man man to find out its options? > > :) > RTF

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/02/2014 05:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: man pm-hibernate Don't ask me why the pm-; it does make it hard to find. Because it is part of pm-utils and pm stands for power management. Oh, that makes perfect sense. --

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/02/2014 05:20 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 02.01.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: [Hibernation] Note however that Linux support for this is pretty limited/ buggy and I would recommend you don't do it. My whole family uses Linux and has used hibernation regularly. None of us has encountered prob

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/02/2014 05:18 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 02.01.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Hibernate takes all the current state and copies it to swap. Thus you need a large swap to handle this. I always create my swap twice my memory size. This is not neccessary. A swapspace equal the amount of RAM

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > man pm-hibernate > > Don't ask me why the pm-; it does make it hard to find. > Because it is part of pm-utils and pm stands for power management. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 02.01.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > [Hibernation] > > Note however that Linux support for this is pretty limited/ buggy and I > > would recommend you don't do it. > > My whole family uses Linux and has used hibernation regularly. None

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.01.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: [Hibernation] > Note however that Linux support for this is pretty limited/ buggy and I > would recommend you don't do it. My whole family uses Linux and has used hibernation regularly. None of us has encountered problems so far... -- users mailing list use

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.01.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Hibernate takes all the current state and copies it to swap. Thus you need > a large swap to handle this. I always create my swap twice my memory size. This is not neccessary. A swapspace equal the amount of RAM is enough to hibernate. -- users mailin

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/02/2014 06:58 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: man pm-hibernate Don't ask me why the pm-; it does make it hard to find. man -k hibernate BTW, I had to do a find on hibernate to discover t

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/02/2014 06:58 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: man pm-hibernate Don't ask me why the pm-; it does make it hard to find. man -k hibernate So now I have to man man to find out its options?

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/01/2014 09:13 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Richard Vickery Ah! Thanks! I might find "hibernate" on my own: why would a user use this command rather than saving and booting up? and How does it know that to look for the memory? https://en.wi

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > man pm-hibernate > > Don't ask me why the pm-; it does make it hard to find. > man -k hibernate poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/01/2014 06:22 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ed Greshko > wrote: On 01/02/14 06:09, Richard Vickery wrote: > I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between suspend and hibernate? It gives thes

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/01/2014 05:09 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi there: I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when folding the computer up. Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page. man pm-hibernat

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Richard Vickery > >> > Ah! Thanks! I might find "hibernate" on my own: why would a user use this > command rather than saving and booting up? and How does it know that to > look for the memory? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation_%28computing%29 Note

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread poma
On 01.01.2014 23:09, Richard Vickery wrote: > Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page. man 5 systemd-sleep.conf /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-3.12.5/Documentation/power/states.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt "suspend to both" aka "hybrid-sleep"(systemd). http:

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/02/14 06:09, Richard Vickery wrote: > > I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between > suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when > folding the computer up. > > > > Just curious - hiber

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/02/14 06:09, Richard Vickery wrote: > I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between suspend > and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when folding the > computer up. > > Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page. > suspend keeps the system

suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi there: I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when folding the computer up. Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page. Thanks -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or