Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

From: Stefan Seyfried
Date: Tue Jun 05 2007 - 05:35:39 EST


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:15:41AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> FWIW, on my old laptop apm beats any kernel solution hands down in terms
> of speed

This might be true on 64MB systems. It is surely not true on multi-Gigabyte-
RAM setups. At least not if you actually use that memory for anything
including filesystem cache.
And you simply cannot buy a new machine today that still supports APM suspend
to disk.
--
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."

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