On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:53 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote: > > I noticed that windows doesn't have the power led blinking when > > suspended as fedora does. Any reason for this? how much power does that > > consume? Is their a way to change the behavior? This is on a laptop by > > the way. > > The difference is probably the nature of the suspend. Suspend to disk > is when the system writes the memory to disk (swap area usually) and > then turns off completely. No power used and no lights flashing. > Suspend to memory is a different sort of hibernation where the system > is put to sleep but the memory is kept powered up to retain its > contents. This mode does require some power to keep the memory powered > and usually has some kind of flashing light. The benefit of this > approach is it is much faster to suspend/resume then the to-disk > approach. > So, how did you suspend the machine in each case ? > > Chris > > > -Louis So lets talk linux terminology. The gnome menu has suspend and shut down/hibernate, which does what? I thought suspend meant suspend to disk and hibernate was suspend to ram? -Louis
