From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754639AbZEKMRZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:17:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757473AbZEKMQo (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:16:44 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:51537 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757713AbZEKMQn (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:16:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 07:38:21 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Shannon McMackin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce Message-ID: <20090510053820.GF1363@ucw.cz> References: <1241620755-22133-1-git-send-email-nigel@tuxonice.net> <20090507120948.GA1531@ucw.cz> <200905080037.19722@centrum.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html