From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 30 8:27:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC7237B449 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA31362; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:27:13 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:27:12 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Warner Losh , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Suggestion for laptop suspension Message-ID: <20000830082712.A31339@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <200008300753.BAA14369@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:35:12PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:35:12PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 30-Aug-00 Warner Losh wrote: > > no. that's not how things work. suspend is in the bios and has no > > clue about what is or isn't used, so it always does the whole thing. > > Perhaps it does simple compression (eg RLE) and if your memory is zero'd to > begin with it would compress that very well.. Yes, the discussion on linux-kernel suggested that there was some empirical evidence about this. So zero'ing as much memory as possible could result in faster suspend/resume. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message