Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin]

Pavel Machek, on 05/10/2009 09:38 AM wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > To summarise disadvantages:
> > > >
> > > > - only core has 8000 LoC
> > > > - it does stuff that can be easily done in userspace
> > > >     (and that todays distros _do_ in userspace).
> > > > - it duplicates uswsusp functionality.
> > > > - compared to [u]swsusp, it received little testing
> > > To summarise advatages - for me tuxonice is the only hibernation method that works.
> > > (Till now I've had 3 machines - no one of them able to resume with in-kernel swsusp.)
> > Just to add my 2 cents as a user of TOI.  Every distro and release I've  
> > tried has one major issue with kernel hibernation.  Upon resume when  
> > hibernating large images, there's a residual footprint in swap.  Every  
> > further hibernation creates a larger footprint, to the order of an  
> > additional 5-7% each time.  Nobody has ever cared in any forum to  
> > explain why or how I might change that.
>
> Maybe you should explain why it is a 'major issue'?
>
> (Use swapoff -a; swapon -a to 'cure' it).

Great advice if you have used memory > physical memory!

Just run two firefox's and thunderbird and you will get that pretty quickly:

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2060560    2040656      19904          0      31452     360580
Swap:      5358296    1475504    3882792



> 								Pavel
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