[ltp] Hibernate on T41P

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:25:05 +0200


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:55:52PM +0200, Matthias Himber wrote:
> 2.6 kernels (and patched earlier versions) have a feature called "software 
> suspend" that may or may not be better than APM suspend. I have never tried 
> it, however.

The advantage of software suspend is that the kernel knows that it can
discard a good number of things (for example, memory cache) and maybe
use fast compression and writes.  All in all, this makes it faster
than APM suspend where everything gets written down.

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