Re: Compaq V2000 Resuming takes a LONG time

MKoool <mohankhurana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am running windows XP on a Compaq V2000 laptop. When I close the lid
> the laptop goes to hibernation mode. When I open it, it gives me a
> message like "Resuming Windows..." with a bar.

Return from hibernation to disk. Or suspension to ram - not clear which
from your statement.

> If I close the lid and open it a few minutes later, windows comes up
> basically instantly.

Return from suspend to ram (or maybe it didn't even do any suspension).

> If I close the lid and open it after say, 6 hours, it takes much longer
> to come up, perhaps as much as 3 minutes.

Return from hibernation to disk.

> Does anyone know why it takes so long?

Why wouldn't it? How much ram do you have? When you hibernate to disk,
all the ram has to be recovered from disk on resume.

> The bar gets stuck as 100% and
> if I continue to wait, I eventually see it come into windows.

Well, it's probably helping individual processes out from whatever
state they were in - if they were talking to a device like a sound card
or a network card, then some reinitialisation MUST take place, and the
card may not end up in quite the same place as the process thinks it is
in. Just before hibernation each process has to be sent to sleep and
then packed away in a safe state.

Please configure your suspend/hibernate choices to your taste via yur
o/s's (or your laptop manufaturer's) power control facilities.

Peter
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