Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 13:29:04 EST


Hi!

> > I think your experience is rather different than that of Joe Average
> > User who doesn't frequent kernel lists, and also I think you'll find
> > that for a lot of Linux laptop users that don't use supend, the reason
> > is that it doesn't work reliably, quite often due to driver issues.
>
> I would believe it if I knew people using suspend/resume on the other OS.
> But that's not the case either. Also, it happens that with today's RAM
> sizes, suspend-to-disk then resume can be several times slower than a
> clean fresh boot. When you have 1 GB to write at 20 MB/s, it takes 50

Stop spreading FUD. swsusp only saves _used_ memory, not all memory,
so it indeed should be faster these days. And yes, it supports
encryption these days.

Pavel
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