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From: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:24:53 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030303122453.A2634@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046673408.27945.5.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams>; from ncunningham@clear.net.nz on Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:36:49PM +1300

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 ...

> 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 !

Regards
Suparna

-- 
Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Labs, India


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-03  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-26  5:45 Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5 Nigel Cunningham
2003-02-27 12:42 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-02-27 18:16   ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-02-28  6:47     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-02-28 13:05       ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-28 13:39         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-02-28 13:44           ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-28 15:18             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-02-28 15:17               ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-28 18:59                 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-03  4:28                   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-03-03  6:36                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-03  6:54                       ` Suparna Bhattacharya [this message]
2003-03-03 10:49                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-03 12:25                         ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-03 13:06                           ` Suparna Bhattacharya

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