closing lid of laptop

[Paolo Galtieri]

I have a question regarding what is supposed to happen when I close the 
lid of a laptop.  I always assumed that closing the lid would cause the 
system to go into suspend mode and wake up when the lid was opened.  
What I mean by suspend is that the system should be doing very little so 
as to not consume battery. However, what I have observed with my laptop 
when I upgraded to F25 is that the system is still active.  I have an 
ssh session into the laptop from another system and this session is 
still active after I close the lid.  So the question is what is supposed 
to happen when I close my laptop's lid?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Paolo