Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 18:02:59 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I would think the likelyhood would be the other way around.  If the
> battery gas gauge is properly calibrated, you should be hibernating with
> well over 30 seconds of power left and so not running out of power.  On
> the other hand, people frequently close the lid and leave the laptop
> there for hours or days, not even thinking that the battery is still
> running down.
>
> If you are running out of power before the hibernate finishes, then one
> of two things is wrong:
>
> 1)  Your gas gauge is not properly calibrated and is reporting that you
> have more remaining power than you actually do
>
> 2)  Your "dead battery" threshold where you go to hibernate is set too low

3) Hibernate actually takes much longer than 30 seconds on your hardware.

Either 30 seconds is a lot longer than I realise, or hibernate on my
hardware takes about 2 minutes.  I had to raise my hibernate threshold
in Kubuntu to give it enough time because it'd blinker out partway
through.  And then resuming also takes like 2-3 minutes.  Given a 12
second boot time, logging in and restarting all the apps takes less
time than resuming.  Anything that can be done to make hibernate
happen faster than booting a Pentium II...would be very welcome.

(I'd also like to laugh at what was said earlier in the thread about
the rate at which battery is used during suspend to RAM.  My specific
hardware does now last more than a full night in suspend, as of about
Lucid, but I'm sure there is more out there that can only stay
suspended for 8-12 hours from full to depleted.)

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan



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