Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

From: Fabio Comolli
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 03:12:13 EST


On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu 2009-05-07 20:57:44, Fabio Comolli wrote:
...
>>
>> Well, if I may jump in I suggest you start with the full-memory image
>> functionality. This is in my opinion the biggest advantage in tuxonice
>> vs. uswsusp.
>
> Neither tuxonice nor swsusp can write full-memory image (it is mostly
> impossible to do in unlikely case of all memory is consumed by
> kmalloc). Now, tuxonice can produce bigger images than swsusp...
>

Pavel, please. (u)swsusp can save images up to half the physical
memory IIRC; with toi I used to easily save 980MB of image on a 1GB
laptop. You can't honestly compare the two things.

> Rafael had short patch for similar efect some time ago, but we could
> not find anyone to really review it...
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂPavel
> --

Regards,
Fabio




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