Re: pmdisk/swsusp 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 success

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> The status display is very ugly. It prints cryptic items and lots of
> random .... and | that don't mean much to me. ;) 
> It would be nice if it could just give a % age complete or a spinning
> cursor to indicate its doing something. 
> 
> It's a good deal slower than software suspend2. Is there any plans to
> add in the LZO compression that software suspend2 uses? 

Is it *always* slow? It is slow for some people and I'm searching
for reproducible testcase...

> On resume there is a inital part where the display just sits there. I
> wasn't sure if it was hung or not, but it was just calculating. It
> would be nice if it could provide a 'this might take a while' or a
> spinning cursor or status bar to let you know it's not dead. 

Hmm, not sure which part is that... I do not see delays
bigger than 5 seconds...

> There aren't any bootup messages to indicate that it's
> available. Would it be possible to add something like: 
> swsusp1: will use /dev/hda2 to resume. 
> swsusp1: /dev/hda2 is regular swap space. Continuing to boot. 

One line should be enough... 
				Pavel
				
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