Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón:
>
>> I meant you can hibernate your computer with any amount of ram
>> available, there are still restoring speed gains in some computers.
>> Your mileage may vary.
>
> But you also need as much space on the HDD to store the RAM content,
> which I don’t really do.
Neither do I. I do not use hibernation at all.
My point was just stating the fact that it could be useful under some
environments/setups regardless the amount of installed memory.
>> > This is why on systems with lots of RAM there is no gain in speed by
>> > hibernating vs. restarting + session saving.
>>
>> I have 8 GiB of ram and a cold start takes some minutes :-)
>
> Booting to the login screeen takes ~35–40 seconds here. Plus another
> half minute to load the DE. Usually I am using normal standby (aka
> suspend to RAM). Powerdevil has no function to disable that feature,
> which is why I want to disable it one level down in the hierarchy.
You mean disable at BIOS level? :-?
> Another reason is that – as mentioned – sometimes I activate it by
> accident because the profile popup is right on top of the Hibernate
> button. Sometimes, that popup disappears right before I click it, hence
> instead of changing power profile, the laptop takes two or three minutes
> to recognise that there is not enough space and come back. Yesterday it
> so happened. Amarok was still playing music, but at some point I was
> unable to change screens anymore (Shift+Alt+Fx). Only a SysRq+REISUB
> helped.
KDE should not trigger power savings unless you configure for doing so.
What you can do is hide/remove the icon you are clicking unconsciously
that enables hibernation in your system.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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