Windows Vista Sleep function

is sleep function in vista reliable?

do the computer quickly sleep and wake quickly?

 

Works fine for me even with dox drivers. Takes about 3 seconds to go to sleep and 2-5 seconds to wake up.

 

After a few days of using these functions without shutting down...Vista has a tendency of hogging RAM. Mine had default RAM usage 2.0 GB after 3 days of Sleep usage with no shutdown or reboot. I rebooted and it went down to 1.1 GB the way it should be on my laptop.

 

Never had issues with sleep on Vista, I use it all the time. Takes 2, 3 seconds to sleep and wake up is almost instant.

 

Wake up is instant, but coonecting to the wireless network takes some time sometimes.

 

That is normal. It takes ages to hook up to wifi even on clean boot. WTH? The Identifying procedure is slowing things up, especially if you select a location and give a name different from the AP.

 

the sleep in vista is quite quick indeed! has it matured enough?

do you find yourself primarily using sleep more than the shutdown function?

 

i have replaced shutdown/hibernate with sleep

unlike xp, vista does not deteriorate slowly the longer it's on

 

Also, depending on your graphics driver, it may be quirky.

 

I use Vista sleep on my HTPC so that it can wake up to record etc. During the week it must go in and out of sleep about 40-50 times by itself and has so far had no problems. I usually restart it about once a week to keep things happy.

If you don't want to use sleep there is always hibernate but it is about as slow as a normal cold boot.

 

Sleep on my Vaio SZ71VN/X works perfectly.

Yes, after using it for long periods of time without a reboot RAM usage grows - but Vista does that anyway - also depending if you plug in external stuff, etcetera, etcetera.

Butr basically - it works very well, I actually think it may even improve with time - my laptop seems to quick on waking up to me

Another side note:
Initially it loaded immediately but now always a tad late - the fingerprint reader...

Connecting to Wi-Fi - it varies, sometimes its quick (connected when fully woken up) sometimes its slow... but its less than 1 minute I'd say.

 

I wouldn't call it normal. Windows XP is a lot faster resuming network connections than Vista. Also, the bluetooth and smartcard drivers on Dell laptops don't like sleep, and throw some error messages when suspending and/or resuming which are not very comforting. Overall, I found Sleep on Vista unreliable and, mostly because of the excruciating slowness of resuming network connections, have stopped using it. One of the biggest disappoinments of Vista in my book, noting that otherwise I find the OS quite good.

 

I guess it depends on what you call quick. On XP, I would often get a network connection back instantly, worst case it would take maybe 3-5 seconds. On Vista, I can sometimes have the connection back in around a minute, but I call that completely unacceptable, given that I can boot this particular machine, including getting a working network connection, in less time... Resuming from sleep is supposed to be instantaneous, but it isn't on Vista.