Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

[Shannon McMackin <smcmackin@gmail.com>]

trekker.dk@centrum.cz wrote:
> Well...
> 
>>
>> 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.)
> 
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> 
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.

TOI does not do this and that's why I've been using it on every distro I 
  can for the past 4 or 5 years.  I for one would love to see TOI 
capability added to the mainline to improve functionality and 
performance. If we can't get all 3 maintained, then 2 that are better 
would seem to suffice...