Hibernation Timing

[POP]

Hi,

Easy question, I think. I like the Hibernate feature; use it all
the time on my laptop, not so much to keep anything open and
available, but simply for a faster turn-on.

For the last year or so, Hibernate on my desktop machine would
only result in, well, nothing happening<g> at all. After the
last reinstall nearly two years ago, it worked briefly and then
stopped working. Ask for hibernate & nothing happened.

Well, as luck would have it, I just rebuilt the drive from
partition removal/format to virgin install, reinstalled all apps,
pulled data from backup and all -seems- to be running perfectly.
So, thought I'd try Hibernate; turned it on and checked the .sys
was created, etc etc etc..

The machine does hibernate: But, it takes it a very long time,
as in over 5 minutes, to complete the progress bar indicating
that the machine is hibernating. The laptop hibernates in just a
few seconds after requesting it.

XP Pro/SP2+, 2.6GHz, 512Meg, 80 Gig 7krpm, 80 Gig 7krpm, 160Gig
external USB, several peripherals and fairly heavy software load
including professional video editing apps, updated av, firewall,
hardware gateway firewall, decent adware/malware protection, also
all kep updated. Task Manager shows 58 processes running, cpu
idles when expected, etc.. No problems in Even Log or Security
logs. Ran a File Monitor for a bit to watch the backrgound
activity, see no failures or Not Founds.

Is this 5+ minutes "normal"?
There are several services I haven't turned off yet such as
remotes, im, etc., but I don't see those making much difference
in timinmg of this magnitude.

Any assistance, comments, etc. appreciated.

Pop

 

[Sharon F]

Hi,

Easy question, I think. I like the Hibernate feature; use it all
the time on my laptop, not so much to keep anything open and
available, but simply for a faster turn-on.

For the last year or so, Hibernate on my desktop machine would
only result in, well, nothing happening<g> at all. After the
last reinstall nearly two years ago, it worked briefly and then
stopped working. Ask for hibernate & nothing happened.

Well, as luck would have it, I just rebuilt the drive from
partition removal/format to virgin install, reinstalled all apps,
pulled data from backup and all -seems- to be running perfectly.
So, thought I'd try Hibernate; turned it on and checked the .sys
was created, etc etc etc..

The machine does hibernate: But, it takes it a very long time,
as in over 5 minutes, to complete the progress bar indicating
that the machine is hibernating. The laptop hibernates in just a
few seconds after requesting it.

XP Pro/SP2+, 2.6GHz, 512Meg, 80 Gig 7krpm, 80 Gig 7krpm, 160Gig
external USB, several peripherals and fairly heavy software load
including professional video editing apps, updated av, firewall,
hardware gateway firewall, decent adware/malware protection, also
all kep updated. Task Manager shows 58 processes running, cpu
idles when expected, etc.. No problems in Even Log or Security
logs. Ran a File Monitor for a bit to watch the backrgound
activity, see no failures or Not Founds.

Is this 5+ minutes "normal"?
There are several services I haven't turned off yet such as
remotes, im, etc., but I don't see those making much difference
in timinmg of this magnitude.

Any assistance, comments, etc. appreciated.

Pop

I get about the same on my desktop. The tablet PC is speedy like your
laptop. No longer use hibernate on the desktop.

Why the difference? Lots of guesses. Top of the heap: portables are
optimized in the power management arena to preserve battery life and
consequently are more attuned to efficient hibernation - entering and
returning.

Portable hardware config is more static. Desktops, by comparison, usually
have a gazillion peripherals that need enumeration checked and then
initialized at every normal startup; even though "state" is preserved in
the hibernation file, initialization/communication with peripherals needs
to be re-established with return from hibernation.... Well, that's a few
guesses. Will stop here.