Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:50:59 -0700 (PDT) | | From | David Lang <> | | Subject | Re: Back to the future. |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Chase Venters wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> >> Once you have that snapshot image in user space you can do anything you >> want. And again: you'd hav a fully working system: not any degradation >> *at*all*. If you're in X, then X will continue running etc even after the >> snapshotting, although obviously the snapshotting will have tried to page >> a lot of stuff out in order to make the snapshot smaller, so you'll likely >> be crawling. >> > > In fact... If you're just paging out to make a smaller snapshot (ie, not > to free up memory), couldn't you just swap it out (if it's not backed by a > file) then mark it as "half-released"... ie, the snapshot writing code > ignores it knowing that it will be available on disk at resume, but then > when the snapshot is complete it's still available in physical RAM, > preventing user-space from crawling due to the necessity of paging it all > back in?
your swap space may end up being re-used before you restore with std
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