Re: Resuming from software suspend

[Måns Rullgård]

Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Provided you're not making the data of the filesystem inconsistent with
> the state that the suspended image is expecting to see, you won't get
> any corruption. As to beginning a resume without rebooting, whether it
> would work would depend upon the size of the image, the amount of memory
> used when you start the resume and the degree of overlap between the two
> sets of memory.

If all processes are killed and all filesystem unmounted, there's not
much left to use memory.  Once you've decided to resume, there's not
much point in keeping old processes running, is there?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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