[Lvlug] 16 seconds from power up to operational system!!!

[JR Namida]

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Tom Garland <tom.garland at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Garland <tom.garland at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Lvlug] 16 seconds from power up to operational system!!!
> To: "The Las Vegas Linux Users Group" <lvlug at lvlug.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 10:43 PM
> When playing around with 'Suspend'
> and 'Hibernate' I noticed
> that both them powered down my desktop system. :-(
> 
> After the power on button was pressed, it took a full boot
> up sequence for an operational system when 'Hibernate' was
> used.
> 
> But when I powered up after using 'Suspend' it took 14
> seconds
> to get power to the display and 2 seconds later I had my
> full
> system back the same as when I did the 'Suspend'. The only
> issue was that Xchat had disconnected and just doing a
> re-connect brought it back fine. Everything else was as I
> left it.
> 
> So unless I need to do a real reboot to get a updated
> kernel
> I'm sticking with doing a suspend from now on. I know that
> work is being done to dynamically load a new kernel. But
> until then I'll re-boot only when I'm updating a kernel.
> 
> Tom
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Tom,  

How much power is the system consuming "measured at the wall plug" in suspend?  Wondering if 14 seconds in comparison to starting your system several hours later is economical?

JR