Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:54, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:36:49PM +1300, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:28, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > > If you add to that the possibility of being able to save more 
> > > in less space if you have compression, would it be useful ?
> > 
> > I'm not sure that it would because we don't know how much compression
> > we're going to get ahead of time, so we don't know how many extra pages
> 
> The algorithm could be adjusted to deal with that, however ...

Ah I see. You're thinking of compressing the pages as we eat memory? I
guess I need to look at LKCD more closely. I think it can wait until we
get the basics of the expanded functionality sorted.

> 
> > we can save. The compression/decompression also takes extra time and
> > puts more drain on a potentially low battery.
> 
> .. I didn't think about the battery drain - valid point !

Of course that can be overcome too. The user simply starts swsusp
earlier or turns off compression if necessary.

Thanks for the thought provoking :>

Regards,

Nigel