Suspend and Hibernate Support for the Ubuntu Server
The Ubuntu desktop really made a name for itself, being one of best Linux distributions for suspending/
With a responsible interest in Energy Saving and Green Computing technologies, the Ubuntu Server could leverage some of the existing technology present on the desktop to enable some server hardware (where supported in BIOS) to suspend-to-RAM, and hibernate-to-disk, and perhaps wake-on-lan to remotely resume.
In addition to energy savings:
* resuming from suspend would provide a faster boot for some servers
* hibernate could allow some hardware maintenance and restoration of previous state
* hibernate is useful for security forensics/research following a security break
A suite of management utilities harnessing this features across a cluster or a cloud of servers would certainly be nice-to-have, though perhaps out-of-scope for this initial, building-block blueprint.
:-Dustin
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Rick Clark
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Definition:
- Discussion
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Dustin Kirkland
- Completed by
- Dustin Kirkland
Whiteboard
This is linked to DeviceKit-power, and improved power management:
https:/
So this one should be merged with the DK-p one...
DONE (Dustin): To use suspend/hibernate on the server, pm-utils should be added to the server-ship seed. Looking at the rdepends and what we're currently missing, it looks like it should be pretty easy, and cost somewhere around ~150KB of CD space. -- :-Dustin
DONE (Dustin): I have successfully tested suspend and hibernate with my Asus P1-AH2 installed with jaunty-
1) Enable S1&S3 in BIOS
2) Enable wakeonlan in BIOS
3) add a kernel parameter (acpi_sleep=
4) enable wakeonlan in the OS with:
$ sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g
Power meter testing (Dustin)
55W: Non-loaded, running system
12W: Suspended system
8W : Hibernated system
8W : Powered off system
Added MIR for wakeonlan, Bug #327662