[ltp] the purpose or advantage of suspend and hibernation

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

My thinkpad hasn't been rebooted in 3 months.  And that was because I
was messing with kernel build options.

I don't have any stuck resources.  Memory leaks are on a per application
basis.  (I don't think the kernel has a memory leak.)

Why would you need filesystem checks, unless you crashed your system with
out syncing.

<quote who="Kelvin KAN">
> Suspend/hibernate won't clean up stuck processes.  E.g. mem leakage will
> be accumulated over and over on each suspend.  They also won't do
> filesystem checks.
>
> Shutdown/restart would probably better free up the stuck resources, and
> check for hard errors.
>
> So perhaps many suspend/hibernations for convenience, and then
> occasional shutdowns for a heathy system.
>
> -
> kelvin.
>
> Dennis D. Jensen wrote:
>
>>Hello laptop-fellows,
>>
>>What is the purpose or advantage of suspend and
>>hibernation?
>>
>>I realize it is a bit funny or odd question, but I've
>>rarely seen anyone questioning it.
>>
>>There is even many variations of suspend: suspend to
>>ram, suspend to disk, etc. What is it about?
>>
>>Why not just shutdown and boot again when needed? It
>>doesn't take _that_ long, unless of course you run a
>>fashionable GUI Desktop (I don't).
>>
>>What are the advantages? Under what circumstances will
>>they prove useful or perhaps even necessary? Do they
>>save power or something like that? Nay! How can they
>>compared to shutting down of powering off!?
>>
>>Disadvantages? Right now I cannot see the
>>advantages... A couple of common sense comments could
>>help out here, please.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Dennis Decker Jensen
>>
>>(concatenate 'string "den" "den" "jen"
>>             "@" "yahoo" "." "dk")
>>
>>
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