[ale] Linux swap space vs hibernate, power shutdown settings

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 22:20:52 EDT 2011


Correct.  Shutdown is faster but doesn't save app data. Hibernate will save
things.
On Nov 5, 2011 9:28 PM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:

> On 11/05/2011 09:00 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > try setting the system to hibernate when battery is low. Hibernate
> > uses the same power as system-off, i.e. none. Suspend is save to ram
> > which will croak when the power does fail.
> >
> > To hibernate, you need swap = ram + used swap at the point of hibernate.
>
> I believe that Ron's point was based on a belief that shut-down takes
> less time than hibernate, and is thus more likely to complete before
> your UPS dies.  For his use case, this may be correct.
>
> David
>
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