Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 May 2009 07:38:21 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce |
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Hi!
>>> To summarise disadvantages: >>> >>> - only core has 8000 LoC >>> - it does stuff that can be easily done in userspace >>> (and that todays distros _do_ in userspace). >>> - it duplicates uswsusp functionality. >>> - compared to [u]swsusp, it received little testing >>> >> >> To summarise advatages - for me tuxonice is the only hibernation method that works. >> (Till now I've had 3 machines - no one of them able to resume with in-kernel swsusp.) >> > Just to add my 2 cents as a user of TOI. Every distro and release I've > tried has one major issue with kernel hibernation. Upon resume when > hibernating large images, there's a residual footprint in swap. Every > further hibernation creates a larger footprint, to the order of an > additional 5-7% each time. Nobody has ever cared in any forum to > explain why or how I might change that.
Maybe you should explain why it is a 'major issue'?
(Use swapoff -a; swapon -a to 'cure' it).
Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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