On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Once you have that snapshot image in user space you can do anything you want. And again: you'd hav a fully working system: not any degradation *at*all*. If you're in X, then X will continue running etc even after the snapshotting, although obviously the snapshotting will have tried to page a lot of stuff out in order to make the snapshot smaller, so you'll likely be crawling.
In fact... If you're just paging out to make a smaller snapshot (ie, not to free up memory), couldn't you just swap it out (if it's not backed by a file) then mark it as "half-released"... ie, the snapshot writing code ignores it knowing that it will be available on disk at resume, but then when the snapshot is complete it's still available in physical RAM, preventing user-space from crawling due to the necessity of paging it all back in? Thanks, Chase - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
