[ltp] what to use to save battery

Adrian Bastholm linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:58:39 +0200


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I was under the impression that hibernation saves the state to disk, and a
suspend consumes power since the state is saved to RAM.

On 9/5/06, Kelvin KAN <kelvin@sgi.com> wrote:
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> Adrian Bastholm wrote:
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> > I would suggest as much RAM as possible to eliminate disk activity,
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> If you use Hibernation, your battery energy consumption will increase
> with the amount of RAM installed, basically proportional to, on each
> hibernation / restore.
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I was under the impression that hibernation saves the state to disk, and a suspend consumes power since the state is saved to RAM.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kelvin KAN</b>
 &lt;<a href="mailto:kelvin@sgi.com">kelvin@sgi.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Adrian Bastholm wrote:
<br><br>&gt; I would suggest as much RAM as possible to eliminate disk activity,<br><br>If you use Hibernation, your battery energy consumption will increase<br>with the amount of RAM installed, basically proportional to, on each
<br>hibernation / restore.<br><br><br>--<br>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br><a href="http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad">http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>I would change the world, but they won't give me the sourcecode

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