Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: SMP ACPI S3 support in 2.4 series? | Date | Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:45:22 -0700 |
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> From: Iain McClatchie [mailto:iain@truecircuits.com] > I'm buying a number of SMP servers. These machines will go > idle for days at a time, and we'd like to send them into a > suspend-to-RAM (ACPI state S3) while they are unused. > > I want to know if this is even possible with the Linux 2.4 > series kernels, and if so, which hardware and kernel combinations > support it. I'd also like to know if anyone really has this > working right now. > > As dual Athlon systems appear to be the best performance/$ for > my application, I'm especially interested in getting those to > sleep, but I'll take any pointers I can get.
S3 is really more "off" than servers generally want to be. Servers typically don't even support it.
I would think for a server, you would want to leave it on, and maybe turn off the disks, or something.
Or maybe just turn the systems off.
2.4 doesn't (and won't) support S3, anyways.
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