Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:19:14 -0500 |
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On Monday 20 February 2006 21:57, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > For the record, my thinking went: swsusp uses n (12?) bytes of meta data for > every page you save, where as using bitmaps makes that much closer to a > constant value (a small variable amount for recording where the image will be > stored in extents). 12 bytes per page is 3MB/1GB. If swsusp was to add > support for multiple swap partitions or writing to files, those requirements > might be closer to 5MB/GB.
5MB/GB amounts to 0.5% overhead, I don't think you should be concerned here. Much more important IMHO is that IIRC swsusp requires to be able to free 1/2 of the physical memory whuch is hard on low memory boxes.
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