Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

From: Ken Moffat
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 13:29:28 EST


On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I just found a machine which will resume after suspend to memory, using
> the mainline kernel (no suspend2 patch).
>
> On resume I was looking at the uptime output, and it was about six
> minutes, FAR longer than the time since resume. So the topic for
> discussion is, should the uptime be
> - time sine the original boot
> - total uptime since first boot, not counting the time suspended
> - time since resume
> - some other time around six minutes
>
> Any of the first three could be useful and "right" for some casesm thus
> discussion invited.
>
My ibook has always been able to suspend to RAM. For a long while,
uptime was shown as the time since the last boot. At some point,
maybe about a year ago, this was "corrected" to show time since boot
_less_ time suspended.

To be clear, the ibook suspends when I close the lid and resumes
when I open it. Uptime used to be convenient, because I could work
out when I'd last booted.

Ken
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