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Will it make it faster or slower?

Will it make it faster or slower?

Posted Sep 6, 2009 17:59 UTC (Sun) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Will it make it faster or slower? by MattPerry
Parent article: Debian switching to upstart

Suspend still uses power, and has the potential for spurious wakeups. Many people don't feel comfortable suspending a system and tossing it in a laptop bag.

Given appropriate optimization, booting should take a lot less time than un-hibernating. In particular, the latter takes more time the more RAM you have in use.

In any case, many good reasons still exist to turn a laptop off rather than hibernating or suspending.


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