Re: Hibernate support

2012-07-11 Thread Andres Perera
nice would it be feasible to also compress kernel dumps once the compression logic is in place for hibernation? On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Mike Larkin wrote: > Hibernate support (suspend-to-disk) will be shortly enabled for i386 + wd > machines. > > Some FAQs, before I commi

Re: Hibernate support

2012-07-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> > windows (they do have one of the best hibernate around) creates a >> > separate pagefile (swap) and a hibernate file. any thoughts of having >> > a /var/hibernate or something along those lines? >> >> hahahhahahhahahahahahh > > Indeed. > >

Re: Hibernate support

2012-07-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > windows (they do have one of the best hibernate around) creates a > > separate pagefile (swap) and a hibernate file. any thoughts of having > > a /var/hibernate or something along those lines? > > hahahhahahhahahahahahh Indeed. Amit, if you want that, you write the code for it. But you can'

Re: Hibernate support

2012-07-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> 2. Hibernate writes to swap (at the end of your swap). If you have too small >> a swap, it won't work, or if there are swap pages in use at the end of your >> swap that overlap with what we want. You need at least "size of mem + 64MB" >> of

Re: Hibernate support

2012-07-11 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> 2. Hibernate writes to swap (at the end of your swap). If you have too small > a swap, it won't work, or if there are swap pages in use at the end of your > swap that overlap with what we want. You need at least "size of mem + 64MB" > of swap at the end of swap, free, at the time of hibernate. m

Hibernate support

2012-07-11 Thread Mike Larkin
Hibernate support (suspend-to-disk) will be shortly enabled for i386 + wd machines. Some FAQs, before I commit the change to turn it on: 1. If you have anything other than i386 + wd, it won't work. Don't report it. Other archs + disk types are being worked on now that i386 + wd is wor