Sleep

[u c]

Anyone out there willing to give a concise treatise as to why sleep is not always a good thing do, even on a real Mac? I am pouring through three years of HQ&A threads but i have found little more than unsubstantiated opinions at this point. After all this time i have personally been dissuaded from using sleep myself and actively encourage Hack and Mac users to turn off their machines or leave them on, but to not sleep them because problems eventually arise, as i have had to deal with them.

I am currently trying to explain my reasoning to a new Hacker, but as it can be with Mac fans, i need more than personal experiences to make a logical argument.

[Kris Tilford]

My experience: Sleep sometimes results in a frozen situation on a real Mac, probably because of USB peripherals. On hackintosh I've run into more graphics issues with Sleep, where I get a functional hack with a black screen, or a scrambled screen upon resumption from sleep, in addition to freezes caused by USB peripherals. I rarely or never use Sleep, so perhaps my experiences are dated and not valid in a more modern Sleep/Hibernate environment? Hibernate seems a good idea, but wasting the entire RAM size in HD space for the Hibernate RAM image isn't always possible on my systems, so I've disabled Hibernation and removed the RAM sized Hibernate image file on most all my Macs & Hacks. My systems are "On" or "Off" with no middle ground.