Re: suspend / power off
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:26:10 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Hi Andrei
You didn't quite understand what I was asking :(
If you suspend to RAM, S3, which I hope unmounts the hard drives.
as suspend is set to power off the computer, does it really matter is running
daemons and services are terminated by removing power ?
Richard
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