Re: uswsusp history lesson [was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: swsusp /suspend2 reliability]

[Bojan Smojver]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 21:31 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> It's only too slow on swsusp. With Suspend2, I regularly suspend 1GB images on 
> both my desktop and laptop machines. I agree that it might be slower on a 
> 4200RPM laptop drive, but you also have to balance this against faulting the 
> pages back in post resume (which will be slower because they're not 
> compressed and contiguous then, though maybe not not as noticable if you're 
> saving 75% of memory).

I'm one of those unlucky people with a 4200 RPM notebook drive, coupled
with a crappy P4 based Celeron CPU. By far, Suspend2 provides a better
user experience than swsusp, even when saving all of 700+ MB or RAM.

-- 
Bojan

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