Slow Hibernation

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sliverstorm · #1 Post by **sliverstorm** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:31 pm

Hello, just curious if anyone else has this problem or has found a solution.
No, it doesn't take 3-5 seconds to hibernate. No, it doesn't take 30 seconds. It's more like 2 minutes before the sleep light stops flashing.
Sidenote; has anyone figured out yet why hibernate drains battery power? I've checked my power configurations, and hybrid sleep is supposedly disabled...

mgo · #2 Post by **mgo** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:24 pm

sliverstorm wrote:Hello, just curious if anyone else has this problem or has found a solution.
No, it doesn't take 3-5 seconds to hibernate. No, it doesn't take 30 seconds. It's more like 2 minutes before the sleep light stops flashing.
Sidenote; has anyone figured out yet why hibernate drains battery power? I've checked my power configurations, and hybrid sleep is supposedly disabled...

Hibernate is slower on Vista. I believe it is because Vista saves more things to the hard drive than XP did. Mine takes around a minute to go into hibernate. (moon stops flashing)

Vista is also slower coming back out of hibernate. Mine takes around 30 seconds, and if I do not move the mouse or touch a key it goes back into hibernate all by itself!

Part of the "charming personality" of Vista I guess.

I'm using a T60 with three gig of ram.

K0LO · #3 Post by **K0LO** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:09 am

Somewhat off-topic, but I used to use hibernation all of the time on my desktop machines. With XP, the desktops took 60 sec to boot and 15 sec to resume from hibernation.

Now that my desktops run Vista, they take 18 sec to boot and 60 sec to resume from hibernation, which makes hibernation kind of useless. I've also gotten in the habit of using Vista's sleep mode on the desktops - it takes literally 1 second for the machine to wake up from sleep. Very impressive.

ArtShapiro · #4 Post by **ArtShapiro** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:49 pm

If misery loves company, I can confirm similar discouraging behavior on my Vista Home Basic X61.

Art

sliverstorm · #5 Post by **sliverstorm** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:50 am

yeah, sleep mode is pretty awesome but it consumes a % or two every hour (roughly, I think) which is more than zero.

I am trying to avoid discharging my battery when I am not actually working away from a wall socket to help avoid accumulating needless power cycles (only got so many...)
I would turn it off but while shutdown is reasonable (faster than hibernate, that's for sure) boot is pretty dang slow and I don't know
how to fix it! defragged, keeping the disk empty of junk, remove startup services...

#6 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:01 pm

Upon reading this thread I became curious how long it would take my ThinkPad to enter and come out of Hibernation. I just tried Hibernation (Fn + F12) on my T42 (2378-FVU), using a Fujitsu MHV2040AH (5,400 rpm drive), 1 Mb RAM installed, on Vista Ultimate SP1. I installed Vista SP1 from a full retail DVD. I have all the ThinkPad utililties and drivers available for my T42 installed.

Going into Hibernation takes 32 seconds.

Coming out of Hibernation takes 26 seconds.

sliverstorm · #7 Post by **sliverstorm** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:35 pm

I will time mine soon. I have reinstalled and cleaned everything up.
x61t, btw

Nolonemo · #8 Post by **Nolonemo** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:37 am

[quote="mgoHibernate is slower on Vista. I believe it is because Vista saves more things to the hard drive than XP did. Mine takes around a minute to go into hibernate. (moon stops flashing)

Vista is also slower coming back out of hibernate. Mine takes around 30 seconds, and if I do not move the mouse or touch a key it goes back into hibernate all by itself!

Part of the "charming personality" of Vista I guess.

I'm using a T60 with three gig of ram.[/quote]

This is similar to me, T61 with 3GB, after a system recovery stripping out the bloatware. I have been wavering over whether to revert to a clean install of XP, this probably will tip me over to the XP side.

sliverstorm · #9 Post by **sliverstorm** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:14 pm

mine took 1:20 to hibernate after a fresh boot, and 1:00 to resume after that.
It takes 1:40 to power on regularly, from button press to the battery manager icon showing up (it's always the last autorun thing to load). Shutdown takes 0:07. Guess how much hibernate I'll be using.

I would do XP and all except I have a tablet. I've gone back a few times to XP and every time it's painfully obvious how much better vista is tabletwise

x61t, 2GB ram and turbomem

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