> > > For purposes of both learning more about the Intel architecture and
> > > the Linux kernel, and doing something useful for my Toshiba 410CDT
> > > laptop, I am attempting to write some simple(I hope) suspend to disk
> > > code for Linux. I remember seeing a similar thread discussed a while
> > > ago, but I plan on using a different method. I am taking the approach
> > > of dumping an entire snapshot of memory to a partition, and then when
> > > I get that working, a file.
> >
> > This is what snapshot does, with exceptions:
> >
> > it dumps to swap partition
> >
> > it does not dump unused memory.
>
> How does it handle the cases where there is more used memory than space in
> the swap partition? And where can I get this program?
Tough. Should never happen :-). Look at http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons.
> Also, talking with a friend a few days ago, he mentioned a feature of
> another unixoid os that allowed to take a snapshot of just one program
> (and dump it to a file). This would be quite useful for a number of
> things.. Is there anything similar in linux?
Probably there are some checkpointing patches for linux, too, but I do
not know about them.
Pavel
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