Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:16:45 +0100 | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] s4bios for 2.5.59 + apci-20030123 | From | Ducrot Bruno <> |
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:41:44AM +1300, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:10, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Some people apparently want slower suspend/resume but have all caches > > intact when resumed. Thats not easy for swsusp but they can have that > > with S4bios. And S4bios is usefull for testing device support; it > > seems to behave slightly differently to S3 meaning better testing. > > Whether its slower depends on the hardware; on my 128MB Celeron 933 > laptop (17MB/s HDD), I can write an image of about 120MB, reboot and get > back up and running in around a minute and a half. That's about the same > as far as I remember, but has (as you say) the advantage of not still > having to get things swapped back in.
The problem is the speed of the suspending process, not the whole suspend/resume sequence, especially in case of emergency suspending due to thermal condition, etc.
-- Ducrot Bruno
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