Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:27:12 -0700 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Suggestion for laptop suspension Message-ID: <20000830082712.A31339@sharmas.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000830173512.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:35:12PM %2B0930 References: <200008300753.BAA14369@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.000830173512.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:35:12PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 30-Aug-00 Warner Losh wrote: > > no. that's not how things work. suspend is in the bios and has no > > clue about what is or isn't used, so it always does the whole thing. > > Perhaps it does simple compression (eg RLE) and if your memory is zero'd to > begin with it would compress that very well.. Yes, the discussion on linux-kernel suggested that there was some empirical evidence about this. So zero'ing as much memory as possible could result in faster suspend/resume. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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