From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Calleja Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:02:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Message-Id: <20050215220254.511a6001.diegocg@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <420C054B.1070502@downeast.net> <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050215004329.5b96b5a1.diegocg@gmail.com> <1108497066.7826.33.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1108497066.7826.33.camel@krustophenia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Lee Revell Cc: prakashp@arcor.de, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, pmcfarland@downeast.net, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:51:06 -0500, Lee Revell escribi=F3: > Of course resuming from suspend will always be faster than booting but > for the forseeable future we will have to reboot from time to time. And > XP's boot time currently is way, way better than ours. FWIW, OSX still > takes forever to boot so we are not the only ones with this problem. What I wonder is if we can have a "process-to-disk" thing and use it to imp= rove other things. Some OSs implement this (DFbsd, for one), but I think we could use it to do some cool things, ie: instead of closing gnome and restarting = all the apps when you login again, you could do something like "when you're closing gnome, dump all the process' images to disk and restart all the pro= cess when you login again". This way your desktop would be *always* in the same state you left it (including things like the text buffer in your termi= nal). You could use it to speed up some things ej: instead of loading openoffice, loa= d a saved image of a void document. Of course there're lots of problems, like what ha= ppens if you change a file which was being used by a suspended process, disconnec= tion between app <-> xserver (x folks are working on thinks like that because of= wireless connections i think) , what happens if you update a library that a image is= supposed to use, can users "restart" images or just only root, etc but i think it'd be = interesting to discuss if it's feasible (in the X world there's already some "signal" sent to programs, but if we w= ere able to do it by "sending a process' image to disk" it'd be much easier and clea= ner IMHO) ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id=14396&op=CCk _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel