Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Axel Boldt) | Subject | Re: The end of booting as we know it | Date | Thu, 23 May 1996 12:41:28 -0700 |
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Cees de Groot <C.deGroot@inter.nl.net> said:
Cees> The alternative, of course, is to leave your machine switched on. Your Cees> hardware will be very grateful for it, too...
Doesn't work for my laptop, doesn't help in switching between OS's, is a waste of energy.
Cees> Seriously: neat idea, but a little bit impractical. The amount Cees> of state information in a running Linux system with Cees> lots'a'hardware and some 40Mb of virtual memory in use (quite Cees> common if running X) is just too much.
You just have to dump the physical memory of course. The virtual RAM is already neatly written to disk.
Axel
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