[CoLoCo] Odd load for sleep mode

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:38 PM, NICK VERBECK <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I could see the uptime increasing in Sleep but not in hibernate.
> Seeing as sleeping just spins down the drives and temp stores the
> memory. It however is still alive and running on a small amount of
> power. Where Hibernate actual powers down everything. If I understand
> the difference its how fast are you looking to turn your computer back
> on vs how much power you need to save, or incase of laptops if your
> moving from one location to another.
>
> As for the load right after I can see that being it working on pulling
> everything of the hard drive and sticking it back in memory.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong on my assumptions of the differences between
> Hibernate and Sleep.


Hibernate copies everything in memory to the HD. I never use that. Sleep
puts the computer in a low power state and preserves the contents of memory.
In the past I did not see uptime increasing in sleep mode but I didn't do
any scientific experiments. The load, however, is what concerned me most.
Even at 15 mins the load was around 3. I don't know for sure (that's why I'm
asking) but it seems odd that just waking from sleep could bump the 15
minute average that high. I don't usually see a load that high ever.

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