<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ed Greshko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ed.Greshko@greshko.com" target="_blank">Ed.Greshko@greshko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 01/02/14 06:09, Richard Vickery wrote:<br>
> I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when folding the computer up.<br>
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> Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page.<br>
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</div>suspend keeps the system powered on, but in a low power mode. No computing is done but the current working state is kept in memory. Resume from suspend is very (or should be) quick.<br>
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hibernate places memory on disk and the system is completely powered off.<br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah! Thanks! I might find "hibernate" on my own: why would a user use this command rather than saving and booting up? and How does it know that to look for the memory?</div>
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