Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:24:53 +0530 | From | Suparna Bhattacharya <> | Subject | Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5 |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:36:49PM +1300, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:28, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > If you add to that the possibility of being able to save more > > in less space if you have compression, would it be useful ? > > I'm not sure that it would because we don't know how much compression > we're going to get ahead of time, so we don't know how many extra pages
The algorithm could be adjusted to deal with that, however ...
> we can save. The compression/decompression also takes extra time and > puts more drain on a potentially low battery.
.. I didn't think about the battery drain - valid point !
Regards Suparna
-- Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Labs, India
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