Plz explain Suspend to Disk and Suspend to Ram

pkhera_2001 · 02-18-2008, 06:29 AM

Hi Expers!

Can anybody please explain me what is and how Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk works? And which is one is equal to Hibernate option in M$ Win ?

Which one is faster to rewoke the system and supports wake on lan ?

If anyone can provide some links to read some usefull doucmentation for this that will be a great help...

Thanks & Regards,
Parveen Khera

acid_kewpie · 02-18-2008, 07:12 AM

nothing to do with networking. moved to Linux - Newbie. please pay more attention to the forums you post in next time. thanks.

pixellany · 02-18-2008, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by pkhera_2001

Can anybody please explain me what is and how Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk works?
Thanks & Regards,
Parveen Khera

NO!! On my laptop its not working and its really annoying me.....

oops, sorry, that's not what you asked......

suspend to RAM: stores the machine state in RAM--keeps the RAM running

suspend to disk: stores it on the hard drive (On the swap partition, in the stuff I am reading)

I think "suspend to disk" and hibernate are equivalent. This option (I think) uses less power, but takes longer to wake up from.

Google will find some definitions--in wikipedia, as a minimum.