Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750710AbVKWMDE (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:03:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750729AbVKWMDE (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:03:04 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:38812 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbVKWMDC (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:03:02 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:02:48 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Lorenzo Colitti Cc: Nigel Cunningham , Greg KH , Dumitru Ciobarcianu , Linux-pm mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp Message-ID: <20051123120248.GB18403@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20051115233201.GA10143@elf.ucw.cz> <1132115730.2499.37.camel@localhost> <20051116061459.GA31181@kroah.com> <1132120845.25230.13.camel@localhost> <20051116165023.GB5630@kroah.com> <1132171051.25230.53.camel@localhost> <20051116213517.GD12505@elf.ucw.cz> <1132175248.25230.104.camel@localhost> <20051116224728.GI12505@elf.ucw.cz> <4384417B.9040201@colitti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4384417B.9040201@colitti.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 31 On St 23-11-05 11:16:27, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >Yes, hopefully users will not notice. > > ? So the idea is to merge inferior code and "hope users won't notice"? > > Users might not notice that half their memory is gone, but they *will* > notice that their system is dog slow when it resumes because all their > caches are gone and a most of their stuff is swapped out. > > Non-responsive system on resume is one of the main reasons that swsusp2 > is much better than swsusp1, and yes, users *do* notice (I was one of > them, as I pointed out a while back). Yes, 50% is better than nothing, > but it's still a pretty poor show. Did you actually benchmark it? > Seen from the perspective of a user, the situation is simple: suspend2 > works, it's fast, and it's rock-solid. Just use it. About as helpful as "Windows XP works, it's fast, and it's rock-solid". Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/