From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
Cc: "Wold, Saul" <saul.wold@intel.com>,
'Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer'
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: The swap partition's size is too big for BSP?
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:48:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309787319.20015.670.camel@rex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1865303E0DED764181A9D882DEF65FB6A20949386F@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 20:02 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > For reference if you want to do suspend to disk (swap) you need a lot
> > of swap space btw. Still no where near that much though!
>
> Does (or should )Yocto Linux support suspend-to-disk? I'm not sure about this.
> BTW: Linux can alse use a regular file as swap area.
> So in case the swap size is not enough (e.g., for suspend-to-disk), I
> think a user could create a big enough file to meet the need (I
> didn't test this with Linux yet).
I don't think we've supported it in the past, its just a datapoint to
keep in mind.
For reference, you can't use a file easily since the VM data needs to be
available as the kernel boots to be able to resume from it.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 5:35 The swap partition's size is too big for BSP? Cui, Dexuan
2011-07-04 11:39 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-04 12:02 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-07-04 13:48 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2011-07-04 13:58 ` Cui, Dexuan
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