Why isn't this computer going to sleep?

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:55:45 -0400, Micky
wrote:

Sure, my only point is that hybrid sleep and hibernate are not the
same thing.

quote
Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate; it puts any open
documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your
computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work.
That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your
hard disk.
/quote

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/difference-between-sleep-hybrid-sleep-and-hibernation-in-windows-7

'Sleep' refers to the part about putting programs and open documents into
memory and then entering a low power state.

'Hibernate' refers to the part about writing that same data to your hard
disk, so that you can still recover the session if sleep mode fails, as in
the example of the battery becoming depleted.

The fact that both modes are available together like that makes it 'hybrid'.

That's how I've always looked at it. Please let me know if I'm wrong.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:09:36 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:55:45 -0400, Micky
wrote:

Sure, my only point is that hybrid sleep and hibernate are not the
same thing.

quote
Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate; it puts any open

Well maybe this is just semeantics but aisi you've just confirmed what
I said. "Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate", and
if one bears in mind that sleep includes having RAM full and ready to
go, and the ability to "quicly resume your work", hibernate doesn't
have sleep combined with it. It's just plain hibernate. Mix in sleep
and you get hybrid sleep.


documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your
computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work.
That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your
hard disk.
/quote

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/difference-between-sleep-hybrid-sleep-and-hibernation-in-windows-7

'Sleep' refers to the part about putting programs and open documents into
memory and then entering a low power state.

'Hibernate' refers to the part about writing that same data to your hard
disk, so that you can still recover the session if sleep mode fails, as in
the example of the battery becoming depleted.

The fact that both modes are available together like that makes it 'hybrid'.

Right. You had said ". In hibernate mode, or hybrid sleep, once the
laptop passes through sleep mode and goes into hibernate, battery
usage drops off." But I wouldn't put it that way.

To me it sounded like you were saying the same things happened in
hibernate and in hybrid sleep. Not so. But even if you were not
saying the "same", I don't think it's fair to say that in hibernate
mode, it passes or has passed through sleep mode. It copies the RAM
to the harddrive, sets a flag so they OS no it hibernated, and then it
turns off. That's not sleep mode, and battery usage doesn't just
"drop off". It ends, except for whatever it takes to be able to Wake
by Lan or Phone. Maybe you consider that nit-picking.

OTOH, in hybrid sleep after it backs up the RAM battery usage to keep
the data in RAM may drop off, if it takes less to keep it there than
to read RAM and write RAM.

And perhaps your point was only that battery usage ends or drops off
as the case may be. If that's it and no one else misunderstood,
that's good.

That's how I've always looked at it. Please let me know if I'm wrong.

I think we agree.