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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: swsusp limits
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:07:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050808220746.GA1821@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0508081248540.1704-100000@shark.he.net>

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Hi!

> Is there a maximum system RAM size that is supported by swsusp?

It should work okay with highmem.

> Does swsusp (to disk) use only one swap partition or can it use
> multiple swap partitions (aggregate them into one logical space)?

Only one swap partition, sorry.

> Is there an option or possibility of using a dedicated swap
> partition for suspend to disk?
> Or maybe there is no reason to think that this might help?

I don't see how it could help.

> If my application(s) causes lots of memory & swap space
> to be used (over half of the total system RAM), is it correct
> that it is likely to be useless to try to suspend to disk
> while that app is running?

No, it should work okay, as long as you do not mlock() it. Just prepare
big enough swap partition.

[I'll add your questions to FAQ...]
								Pavel
-- 
if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-08 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08 20:09 swsusp limits Randy.Dunlap
2005-08-08 22:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-08 22:36   ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-08-08 22:47     ` Pavel Machek

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