[GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Mar 29 09:49:23 EDT 2018


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 07:43:39PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
> That'd be a totally brute-force solution.  If the kernel pushed all dirty
> pages into swap then there should only be the page tables and other core
> stuff needing to go out, sleep, and be read back in before it could start
> paging the rest back as needed.  Being a tad more aggressive about
> page-cleaning during normal runtime might even help it suspend faster.
> 
> I'd thought there was kernel suspend support already, in fact, not just
> hardware/firmware versions of it, but lack of a nice laptop and being
> the sort of person who crypts my swap partition mean I've never had the
> occasion to try it.

Well I generally don't suspend linux.  I mainly suspend windows, and it
is not very smart about it.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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