Back in 2012 I got a maxed out macbook air w/ 8gb of ram, and waking from sleep was noticeably slower than the other machines I've had. Never did any testing to see if that was actually the cause, but I'm curious if large amounts of memory can be hard for quick sleep/wake actions.
> I'm curious if large amounts of memory can be hard for quick sleep/wake actions
No, because sleep mode keeps the memory powered (albeit in idle mode which with LP-DDR3 is less than 10% of the power draw normally).
Hibernate is where the ram gets flushed to disk and the ram is powered down, which could impact startup times with more RAM, but that isn’t the issue in your case I believe. I’m guessing your case is due to an app you have running.
