Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:30:55 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.freebsd.org>, bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Message-ID: <20000619173055.A16200@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000620101608.A38965@gurney.reilly.home>; from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM %2B1000 References: <20000620085531.A38839@gurney.reilly.home> <200006191630.KAA60652@harmony.village.org> <45525.961432574@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000620085531.A38839@gurney.reilly.home> <200006192301.RAA63461@harmony.village.org> <20000620101608.A38965@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > (*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process > dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just > ensuring that all processes are sleeping in the normal swap > partition? If that was done, then they would just page > themselves back in as needed, on wake-up. Because swap doesn't work that way anymore. They days where every page of memory had to be backed by disk are long gone. This means that there may not be anywere to put processes which are in memory unless you allocate somewhere to save all (or practicaly all) of memory. In any case, I haven't seen many laptops capable of using more then 256MB of RAM which isn't exactly much of a modern disk. My laptop has 256MB of RAM and ships with up to a 10GB disk. I've retrofitted it with a non-standard 18GB disk because 10GB looked too small for my needs. Even with the 6.4GB disk it shipped with, the suspend to disk partition is only 4% of my disk. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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