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I usually use chrome and Firefox for browsing. I also open many tabs (around 40 in both some times).

The problem I have occurs when I resume the PC after having suspended it: It takes from 2 to 5 minutes sometimes to just get back normally.

Does this have to do with memory usage not properly resuming? Is it a bug in Chrome/Firefox or Ubuntu itself?

Note that I just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.10 and I was having the problem on both releases, which makes me guess that it has to do with Ubuntu not resuming well if some memory-heavy apps were running before the suspend occured.

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2 to 5 minutes? Well, that could mean my laptop has the same problem. I always thought it simply didn't resume after suspend, and just froze in stead. But I didn't have the patience to wait 5 minutes :p Anyway, known problem. – RobinJ Feb 23 '12 at 11:22
What is your swap partition and memory size? – Javier Rivera Feb 23 '12 at 12:08
Ram = 4GB so is swap – tUrGoNn Feb 28 '12 at 22:02

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I think this could be expected. Hibernation / resume time depends on the amount of RAM the system has, regardless of how much of the RAM is actually used. It makes no difference whether you have 1 or 100 programs open, it will still take the same time.

After getting a new high-end notebook that seemed slower on resuming than my older notebook I learned that the more RAM a system has, the more time it will take to hibernate and resume. There is also data compression / decompression involved in hibernating so this is also a factor if you have more stuff in memory. A few minutes wait time is to be expected, and on high end - ram packed machines it does take longer.

Hope this helps, cheers!

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Funny, I would have expected to be faster having more ram.. though if i think of it now.. it doesnt make any sense :P – tUrGoNn Feb 28 '12 at 22:04
This is not true, there is compression involved, so if you run no programs it is instantaneous – Nick Andrik Nov 23 '12 at 18:18

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