Don't hibernate, crashing is faster.

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 04:09:32 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:06 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I don't quite understand the obsession with making boot time faster 
>> anyway.  Machines should only boot when they have a new kernel to 
>> install.  If they aren't needed all the time they should sleep or 
>> hibernate, waking up with everything still running.
> 
> Hibernate is the Wrong Thing.
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/


I'm really more interested in sleeping than hibernating.  Restart time 
should be 15-20 seconds including typing the password and bringing the 
network back up.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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