Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Stallman
Well, while it would be a good option to have, I'm not sure it's a good idea to make it the default. If you flush the buffer+page caches, then later you will need to repopulate them. It is worth caching data, in ordinary circumstances, because it has a certain chance of being useful

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Stallman
Well, while it would be a good option to have, I'm not sure it's a good idea to make it the default. If you flush the buffer+page caches, then later you will need to repopulate them. It is worth caching data, in ordinary circumstances, because it has a certain chance of being useful

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Gooch
Richard Stallman writes: > Well, while it would be a good option to have, I'm not sure it's a > good idea to make it the default. If you flush the buffer+page caches, > then later you will need to repopulate them. > > It is worth caching data, in ordinary circumstances, because it

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Gooch
Richard Stallman writes: Well, while it would be a good option to have, I'm not sure it's a good idea to make it the default. If you flush the buffer+page caches, then later you will need to repopulate them. It is worth caching data, in ordinary circumstances, because it has a

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is > weird. > > But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The > thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most > users, and to build it in by default so that it works "out of the box"

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Gooch
Richard Stallman writes: > Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is > weird. > > But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The > thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most > users, and to build it in by default so that it

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is weird. But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most users, and to build it in by default so that it works "out of the box" on most

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is weird. But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most users, and to build it in by default so that it works "out of the box" on most

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Gooch
Richard Stallman writes: Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is weird. But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most users, and to build it in by default so that it works

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-09-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is weird. But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most users, and to build it in by default so that it works "out of the box" on

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-08-29 Thread Stephen Rothwell
From: Linda Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You might want to reread what I previously wrote. Is there any > reason to think that your program is doing anything other than forcing all dirty > buffers out to disk? Yes. 1) I didn't actually respond to what you said, but to what Richard asked. 2)

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-08-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! >> is how to mark memory as "unused". I had a theory that the APM BIOS >> suspend code was checking if the memory was all zero's, and not writing >> such pages to disk. This was a while ago, but a quick test didn't seem >> to bear out this theory. > >Are you sure?

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

2000-08-29 Thread Stephen Rothwell
From: Linda Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to reread what I previously wrote. Is there any reason to think that your program is doing anything other than forcing all dirty buffers out to disk? Yes. 1) I didn't actually respond to what you said, but to what Richard asked. 2) My