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How does hibernation work?

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Mar 15, 20264425 views

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I'm wondering how hibernation works. Obviously it writes the contents of RAM to disk, but is there anything else? does it save/restore CPU state? cache state? anything else?

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Hibernation is the same as switching off the computer, as far as devices go. It saves the CPU and RAM, so processes will pick off from where they were, but there is no guarantee that a suspended device activity will continue to work (example if you …

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