Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 May 2009 00:10:40 +0400 | From | Vladislav Bolkhovitin <> | Subject | Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce |
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Pavel Machek, on 05/10/2009 09:38 AM wrote: > 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).
Great advice if you have used memory > physical memory!
Just run two firefox's and thunderbird and you will get that pretty quickly:
# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2060560 2040656 19904 0 31452 360580 Swap: 5358296 1475504 3882792
> Pavel
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