[ltp] what to use to save battery

Andrew Barr linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:36:19 -0400


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 15:59 -0400, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 11:58 +0200, Adrian Bastholm wrote:
> > I was under the impression that hibernation saves the state to disk,
> > and a suspend consumes power since the state is saved to RAM.
> 
> you're correct.
> 
> sometimes people use hibernate as a generic term.

The original point (no longer quoted), I think, was to point out that
hibernate does a lot of disk I/O and consumes more immediate power than
STR for short periods.

> brad
> 
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