On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 03:47 -0700, Vitaliy wrote: > > Have you tried hibernate? This is one area Windows is still king, a fast > > windows machine can be ready to use after hibernating in around 10-15 > > seconds, barely enough time to take your jacket off. (FWIW my ubuntu box > > takes about a minute to come out of hibernate, not bad, but still very > > slow compared to windows). > > Hibernation generally has a bad reputation, and I found that the system is > more prone to crashing after coming out of hibernation. YMMV. That may have been true in the past. These days I hibernate every machine I use, ranging from AMD Athlon 2400+ machines, to my Atom based laptop, to a Pentium D system, to my Core2 Duo system. Every single one runs reliably after hibernate. I just checked, the home system I was speaking of (Ubuntu 8.04) has been up for 53 days, and I hibernate that thing at least twice a day (once before I leave from work, and once when I go to bed), so that's at least 106 hibernate cycles and still no problem. Heck, my laptop is dual boot, and I hibernate both OSs on the same machine (Ubuntu 8.10 and XP). Only time I actually "reboot" is if the the OS has to access the drive of the other OS (pretty rare, all my data is on network shares). The only "trick" to hibernate is get good hardware, the cheapo stuff undoubtedly still can be problematic. TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist