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Bob
I'd mentioned a few days back that Hibernate seems to do an excellent
job of cleaning up memory leaks altho my hibernations (only) averaged
about 10 seconds. Like catnaps, these short hibernation sessions
seemed to really revitalize the system performance. I'm sorry if I'm
beating on a dead horse but I have seen no mention of a refreshing and
memory cleansing associated with hibernate. A reboot has always been
needed to get such a refreshing effect.
I have to report a couple errata...
First the (System Monitor) reported available memory after Hibernating
is 366 MB, not 300 MB (on a 512 MB RAM system).
Second, and probably more significant, the nature of my hibernate
sessions has changed and I can't explain why. Today true hibernation
occurs.
The other day I said the extent of a hibernation session was about 10
seconds. After 10 seconds my computer resumed operation with the
memory cleansed from (plus an increment from 244 MB max to 300 MB
max).
At first Start ->Shutdown->Hibernate was followed in a second or two
by a black screen and the green Power On Led at the front of the
monitor going off. Eight seconds after that the monitor would regain
power and shows the usual desk top.
That has changed and the monitor is NOT automatically
returning to active status. Instead the computer appears to shutdown.
The fans on the PSU and CPU turn off. The leds that I usually look at
show the system is off go off. It stays that way even if I mouse or
press keys on the keyboard including Ctrl-Alt-Del. When I press the
Power-on button at the front of the chassis, hold it for a second or
two, then it appears to do a normal restart except, after the usual
boot-up messages appear on the screen, something like a white status
bar appears at the bottom of the screen with a message about
Hibernation is over. A few seconds everything appears to be better as
I reported previously.
Bottom line is my original report that System Monitor indicates
Hibernate cleans up memory leaks plus adds another increment of memory
for the Users space still seems valid. But, instead of taking just
ten seconds and with no other user action, now it appears that one
will go thru a true hibernation cycle and these take me at least a
minute.
Hope this helps,
Bob
job of cleaning up memory leaks altho my hibernations (only) averaged
about 10 seconds. Like catnaps, these short hibernation sessions
seemed to really revitalize the system performance. I'm sorry if I'm
beating on a dead horse but I have seen no mention of a refreshing and
memory cleansing associated with hibernate. A reboot has always been
needed to get such a refreshing effect.
I have to report a couple errata...
First the (System Monitor) reported available memory after Hibernating
is 366 MB, not 300 MB (on a 512 MB RAM system).
Second, and probably more significant, the nature of my hibernate
sessions has changed and I can't explain why. Today true hibernation
occurs.
The other day I said the extent of a hibernation session was about 10
seconds. After 10 seconds my computer resumed operation with the
memory cleansed from (plus an increment from 244 MB max to 300 MB
max).
At first Start ->Shutdown->Hibernate was followed in a second or two
by a black screen and the green Power On Led at the front of the
monitor going off. Eight seconds after that the monitor would regain
power and shows the usual desk top.
That has changed and the monitor is NOT automatically
returning to active status. Instead the computer appears to shutdown.
The fans on the PSU and CPU turn off. The leds that I usually look at
show the system is off go off. It stays that way even if I mouse or
press keys on the keyboard including Ctrl-Alt-Del. When I press the
Power-on button at the front of the chassis, hold it for a second or
two, then it appears to do a normal restart except, after the usual
boot-up messages appear on the screen, something like a white status
bar appears at the bottom of the screen with a message about
Hibernation is over. A few seconds everything appears to be better as
I reported previously.
Bottom line is my original report that System Monitor indicates
Hibernate cleans up memory leaks plus adds another increment of memory
for the Users space still seems valid. But, instead of taking just
ten seconds and with no other user action, now it appears that one
will go thru a true hibernation cycle and these take me at least a
minute.
Hope this helps,
Bob