How to use a terabyte of RAM [LWN.net]

How to use a terabyte of RAM

Posted Mar 13, 2008 17:56 UTC (Thu) by Hawke (subscriber, #6978)
In reply to: How to use a terabyte of RAM by landley
Parent article: How to use a terabyte of RAM

You could set it so that the system doesn't ask what to do, but instead suspends immediately
when you press the power button. (system -> preferences -> power management, general tab,
"when the power button is pressed: suspend").

Alternatively, if you have a suspend key on your keyboard, that might be handled by the BIOS
instead of the OS, and might trigger a suspend event.

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How to use a terabyte of RAM

Posted Mar 13, 2008 20:48 UTC (Thu) by landley (subscriber, #6789) [Link]

Those instructions seem to be for gnome, and I'm using kde (without 
kpowersave installed, which I'm reluctant to install due to the "ubuntu 
laptop disks eating themselves after 6 months if you don't "hdparm -B 
255 /dev/sda" them.  (See 
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=16&t... for details.)

However, all I had to do was edit /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh and replace the 
call to /usr/bin/dcop with a call to /etc/acpi/sleep.sh.

I'm aware this is probably not the _approved_ way of doing this, but as 
with most "chainsaw, shotgun, and duct tape" solutions, it works just 
fine for me...