Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 03 Mar 2003 23:49:57 +1300 | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | | Subject | Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5 |
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On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:54, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:36:49PM +1300, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:28, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > If you add to that the possibility of being able to save more > > > in less space if you have compression, would it be useful ? > > > > I'm not sure that it would because we don't know how much compression > > we're going to get ahead of time, so we don't know how many extra pages > > The algorithm could be adjusted to deal with that, however ...
Ah I see. You're thinking of compressing the pages as we eat memory? I guess I need to look at LKCD more closely. I think it can wait until we get the basics of the expanded functionality sorted.
> > > we can save. The compression/decompression also takes extra time and > > puts more drain on a potentially low battery. > > .. I didn't think about the battery drain - valid point !
Of course that can be overcome too. The user simply starts swsusp earlier or turns off compression if necessary.
Thanks for the thought provoking :>
Regards,
Nigel
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