Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>
>>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>
>>>> (b) making sleep/hibernate reliable is what laptop users
>>>> need instead of booting all the time anyway because it is much faster if
>>>> you can simply close the lid and open it later with all your apps
>>>> working as you left them.
>>>
>>> This is actually the strongest argument against spending a lot of
>>> resources on
>>> going sub 20 seconds.  If Vista-style suspend-to-both works reliably,
>>> there is
>>> no reason to turn a machine off at all.
>>>
>>
>> suspend uses LITTLE power but not none
>> hiberate uses no power but only happens when you've drained power already
>>
>> so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
>
> Or hibernate?

At least on my system hibernate takes as much time as a reboot.

And  as jesse said - we still need to reboot for kernels, dbus, all sorts 
of stuff.

-sv