The suspend2 discussion resumes

The suspend2 discussion resumes

I was only thinking about "close the lid" suspend ... for which the requirement is to save the state in a time that is short enough to not annoy the user ... perhaps a few seconds is okay. In a system with only a flash drive, it perhaps doesn't matter if the saving of state takes a few seconds longer as there are no drive heads to bounce when the user picks up the laptop and tosses it into their backpack.

But you make a good point about save to mem for power saving purposes when the system is idle for "long" periods like between keystrokes.