RR hibernate time window length for command execution

Iceman_jkh · 01-20-2008, 02:17 AM

Hi,

Im curious as to the length of time that is available to execute commands under the ONSUSPEND header after windows receives the hibernate signal. And if windows will actually wait until all the commands are completed.

I know that Windows actually issues the hibernate command after receiving the turn-off pulse from the motherboard. In turn this tells RR to run anything listed after ONSUSPEND.

I want to know how many commands can be placed here? and if there is any way to ensure that they are all executed BEFORE the system hibernates. I know that sometimes my system shows the 'Hiberating [####-----]' screen almost immediately, and Im not confident that its had sufficient time to execute the scripts. Worse yet, would be the possibility of some of the incompleted ONSUSPEND commands executing after the PC resumes

Thanks
J

Blue ZX3 · 01-20-2008, 04:31 AM

From all my reading, there is a time limit as to how long the time is between the issuing of the hibernate cmd from windows and the time windows will surpass waiting to do the hibernating.

My memory says ~30 secs, but not sure.

Iceman_jkh · 01-20-2008, 04:57 AM

Cheers Blue.

According to this little app, Hibernate Trigger (http://www.rpi.edu/~desimn/suspendtrigger/index.html), "during the suspend operation, the program can only stall Windows for a maximum of 20 Seconds before Windows will assume that it must be hung, and will forcefully terminate it"

I realise this app does exactly the same thing RR's ONSUSPEND/ONRESUME lines do, but Id like to see if they function any differently. I have a feeling that my commands arent completing properly (suspend), or are trying to complete with too much else loading at once (resume).

Iceman_jkh · 02-06-2008, 05:57 AM

Further testing has revealed that the problem lies with the Voice Control (now embedded) in RR. At least on my machine (Intel DG965SS), it crashes RR 90% of the time when resuming from hibernation. I first thought my other Resume/Hibernate commands weren't being completed and therefore causing the error, but after disabling Voice Control, I've had 100% success (~30 times so far) upon resuming.