Hi. On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:59, Andreas Happe wrote: > On 2006-02-21, Nigel Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:52, Andreas Happe wrote: > >> I tried to use suspend2, but setup wasn't that great (i.e. didn't > >> work as well or easy as swsusp) so I dropped it. > > > > Could you provide more detail? If there's something I can do to make > > it eas= ier=20 to use, I'm more than willing to consider that. > > it's way too long ago to remember specifics, the system didn't resume > after suspending. Swsusp worked just out of the box (sans dri support > after resuming) without the need to apply a patch (which wasn't supplied > as normal patch (if i remember correctly) but was used by starting a > script)). I'm sorry that I didn't submit a proper bug report, but the > alternative worked for me. Ok. That was when I provided multiple patches - they're all combined now. The script is still there, but just to make applying easier for newbies. > You can't make it simpler except you get in included into mainline (even > by making compromises). Agreed. > > 12 bytes per page is 3MB/1GB. If swsusp was to add support for > > multiple swap partitions or writing to files, those requirement 20 > > might be closer to 5MB/GB. Bitmaps, in comparison, use ~32K/GB (approx > > because it depends whether the gigabyte is all in one zone). > > Proportionally ,20 bitmaps are eating a lot less space out of your > > gigabyte, but I don't think anyone is going to notice that they have 3 > > or 4MB more cache per gigabyte with Suspend2 than they have with > > swsusp). > > This would take suspend2 a step closer to mainline.. you'll have a very > honest 'Thank You' if that could happen.. Well, we'll see what Rafael and I can work out. Regards, Nigel > andy > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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