Messages in this thread | | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: [ 01/10] [Suspend2] kernel/power/modules.h | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:30:47 +1000 |
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Hi.
On Thursday 02 February 2006 19:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Its limitation , however, is that it requires a lot of memory for the > > system memory snapshot which may be impractical for systems with limited > > RAM, and that's where your solution may be required. > > Actually, suspend2 has similar limitation. It still needs half a > memory free, but it does not count caches into that as it can save > them separately. > > That means that on certain small systems (32MB RAM?), suspend2 is going to > have big advantage of responsivity after resume. But on the systems > where [u]swsusp can't suspend (6MB RAM?), suspend2 is not going to be > able to suspend, either. [Roughly; due to bugs and implementation > differences there may be some system size where one works and second > one does not, but they are pretty similar] > > But that's probably not a problem as it is only going to fail on > *very* small system. Desktops with 6MB RAM are not too common these > days, fortunately. Not even in embedded space.
Fully agree.
Regards,
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