From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423451AbWBBKeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:34:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423454AbWBBKeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:34:12 -0500 Received: from 60-240-149-171.tpgi.com.au ([60.240.149.171]:11246 "EHLO cust8446.nsw01.dataco.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423451AbWBBKeK (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:34:10 -0500 From: Nigel Cunningham Organization: Suspend2.net To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [ 01/10] [Suspend2] kernel/power/modules.h Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:30:47 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060201113710.6320.68289.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <200602020931.29796.rjw@sisk.pl> <20060202093859.GA1884@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060202093859.GA1884@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart29213780.CyHCQ6Oviu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602022030.50983.nigel@suspend2.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart29213780.CyHCQ6Oviu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Thursday 02 February 2006 19:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Its limitation , however, is that it requires a lot of memory for the > > system memory snapshot which may be impractical for systems with limited > > RAM, and that's where your solution may be required. > > Actually, suspend2 has similar limitation. It still needs half a > memory free, but it does not count caches into that as it can save > them separately. > > That means that on certain small systems (32MB RAM?), suspend2 is going to > have big advantage of responsivity after resume. But on the systems > where [u]swsusp can't suspend (6MB RAM?), suspend2 is not going to be > able to suspend, either. [Roughly; due to bugs and implementation > differences there may be some system size where one works and second > one does not, but they are pretty similar] > > But that's probably not a problem as it is only going to fail on > *very* small system. Desktops with 6MB RAM are not too common these > days, fortunately. Not even in embedded space. =46ully agree. Regards, Nigel =2D-=20 See our web page for Howtos, FAQs, the Wiki and mailing list info. http://www.suspend2.net IRC: #suspend2 on Freenode --nextPart29213780.CyHCQ6Oviu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD4d9aN0y+n1M3mo0RAogKAKCrtAH1ZwusBHSvNg/tDyazCq/nUgCfc8mC qMubao7AATTgT160v1etm9o= =jPr3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart29213780.CyHCQ6Oviu--