Question- Whenever a computer is idle, we can either put it in standby (where DRAM is still active) or we can let it hibernate.
Suppose that, to hibernate, we have to copy just the contents of DRAM to a nonvolatile medium such as Flash.
If reading or writing a cache line of size 64 bytes to Flash requires 2.56 ?J and DRAM requires 0.5 nJ, and if idle power consumption for DRAM is 1.6 W (for 8 GB),
Q- How long should a system be idle to benefit from hibernating?
Let a main memory of size 8 GB.
Find out how long should a system be idle to benefit from hibernating?