On Du, 15 ian 12, 18:23:22, richard wrote: > Greetings, > > It may seem a daft question, BUT, what is the exact process when suspending ? > > On a laptop it doesn't matter as power is kept on when either the lid is shut > or suspended, the same action. > However, on a mains powered machine suspend will power off, I'm guessing a write > to ram and umount any active device ?? > Anything written to ram will be lost, does it really mater now if running > daemons & services are just terminated instead of being properly shutdown ? > > Now with gnome3 shell ALT has to be held don to go to the power off/restart > menu, > I wonder how many just do a rapid power off with suspend ? Your question is a bit vague to me. Are you asking about Suspend-to-RAM (also known as S3)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_RAM Or is this about Suspend to Disk (also known as Hibernate, S4)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_disk Anyway, as you might notice in those Wikipedia articles, there is no difference between types of computers. What effect closing the lid on a laptop has is usually configurable (BIOS and/or OS). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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