[ltp] what to use to save battery

[Kelvin KAN]

And the larger the amount of memory, the more the energy consumed to 
write them all to disk.

Because someone earlier mentioned to increase the amount of memory (RAM) 
to conserve disk activities.

I just tried to point out that if you use hibern/restore a lot (write to 
disk), the energy consumption would increase, contradiciting the purpose.


Andrew Barr wrote:

>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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