[GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:51:34AM -0400, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
> Lennart, thanks for reply.
> 
> My remarks below.
> 
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Lennart Sorensen 
>   To: Giles Orr ; GTALUG Talk 
>   Cc: Steve Petrie, P.Eng. 
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:27 PM
>   Subject: Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;
> 
> 
>   On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
>   > It's probably too late to convince you of this (as I suspect it would
> 
>   Well I discovered on my laptop a few years ago that suspend to disk takes
>   a very long time when you put 24GB ram in a laptop and use a 5400rpm disk.
> 
>   An SSD makes it much better of course.
> 
> *** Nice tip. I'll be sure to use the SSD not only for fast software loading, but also for suspend workspace.

It was obvious in restrospect of course:

100MB/s disk speed (if lucky) and 24000MB ram = at least 240 seconds to
write ram to disk.

Resume was equally painful.  It was faster to shutdown and boot normally
and open my programs again.

-- 
Len Sorensen