swsusp memory freeing [was Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs]

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 16:59:37 EST


Hi!

> > > By the way, did you see the effect of the memory eating patch? I didn't
> > > think about it until someone emailed me, but the improvement was 50x
> > > speed in the best case!
> >
> > Well, more interesting was that you actually freed much more memory
> > with your patch. *You actually made memory freeing to work*. So yes, I
> > like that one.
>
> You might be misreading me. When you set the image size limit setting in
> Suspend2, it's a soft limit. The image size wouldn't actually get down
> to 2 meg; Suspend would just aim for that and eat memory until it saw it
> wasn't getting anywhere.

Well, numbers looked like with same 2MB soft limit, "new" version
actually freed more memory. Perhaps that's not the case...
Pavel
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