From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 11:14:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C6437B66E; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA74922; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:14:41 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:14:41 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Mike Smith , Andrew Reilly , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report In-Reply-To: <20000620093853.C36774@pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. > > leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a > > lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a > > "server-class" operating system in that you have to worry about network > > connections from other systems, not just _to_ other systems. > > > > That said TCP/IP is very resilient :). I tried suspending to disk > my laptop, unplugging the batteries and ether card, taking it to another > part of the building and the firing it up. > > Pccardd saw the ethernet card, Dhclient saw the dhcp server and got > my ip address back, and my pre-existing remote terminal sessions > continued functioning :) Excellent. > > IMO if the machine is a server and you want to suspend it, who cares > about the clients at the other end? If you did you wouldn't suspend > it in the first place :) > You obviously haven't considered the ability to be able to near hot-swap motherboard and cpu - or even RAM - in this way. > Joe > > sander@haldjas.folklore.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message