Re: [PATCH] add some drop_caches documentation and info messsge

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> > You might or might not want to do that. Dropping caches around suspend
> > makes the hibernation process itself faster, but the realtime response
> > of the applications afterwards is worse, as everything touched by user
> > has to be paged in again.
> 
> Right, do you know of a real use-case where people hibernate, then
> resume and still care about applications response time right afterwards?

Well if the point of dropping caches is lowering the resume time, then the 
point is rendered moot as soon as you switch to your browser and have to 
wait noticeable amount of time until it starts reacting.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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