[Debian-eeepc-devel] Newbie experience

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Jay Sekora, Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:15:24PM -0500 |=-
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > [...] unless you're doing hibernate (which
> > in my opinion is a frill that most people can do without) you don't
> > need swap at all.
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu rather than Debian[1], and I'm not sure how whether or
> how much power consumption during suspend can be affected by software,
> so take this with as much salt as needed, but I tried using suspend
> for a while, and the machine would regularly run out of juice while
> suspended, forcing a full reboot (and often a fsck) when I tried to
> resume it.  I ended up having to reformat with a swap partition and
> switch to hibernate.

Heh, my experience is quite the opposite. I first had doubts that
suspend will work at all, so I've setup swap and used hibernate. Later,
suspend started to work and I never hibernated after that. Once I've
forgot the Eee suspended for 10+ hours and was very pleasantly surprised
to find it with 20% of its battery left.

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