What is the difference between suspend and power off

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams k 8 8 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. What do you mean by "moves the contents of memory into swap"? Iszi Iszi Gopinath Gopinath 2 2 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. A third approach is to suspend to copy the contents to RAM , and then hibernate which would also copy the contents of the RAM to the disk, so the power on is faster than powering on a computer and restoring the state manually.

Terms and Policy. Buy me a coffee. I think it is absurd to have a swap of 16GB — when you already have 8 GB of memory. Or is Linux and the linux apps that bad in memory management? Oh, And i have used hibernate in windows for maybe 20 years now. Such a disappointment. I believe you, when you say that implementing hibernate in an OS is difficult. Still Windows has done it, on millions of different computer configurations, for a long time.

It is not meant that way. I am just disappointed that something common as hibernate is so hard to configure in Linux. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Linux: How to get CPU and memory information. Cerebro, a Spotlight-like launcher for Linux.

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