On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:32:40AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote: >Hello, > >I'm using Fedora on two laptops for quite some time now (since F8). >Having used suspend-to-disk very often I can conclude, that I'm not >happy with the performance it shows. Suspending a laptop with just >1GB of memory takes about 30 to 60 seconds here and nearly the same >for resuming. The same laptop on Windows (sorry ;-)) got it done in >about 10 seconds each. >What I did some time ago, was to switch to the TuxOnIce[1] patched >kernels from atrpms. Not only does TuxOnIce show a progressbar (even >with splash if wanted) during suspend and resume, it also handles >the process in the expected 10 to 15 seconds. > >Since Fedora patches the Kernel anyway, I propose adding TuxOnIce It's patched very minimally. The two largest items are execshield and utrace. Aside from that, patches actually tend to be fixes, not features. >(also known as Suspend2) into the official Fedora Kernel. It doesn't >hurt those who don't use suspend-to-disk anyway but benefits those >who do. >Also it could probably rather easy be integrated with Plymouth to >show a nice animation during suspend and resume. (Though that would >be optional :-P) I think the best option is for either TuxOnIce to get into the kernel.org kernel, or to fix the problems with the existing suspend framework. >I hope you take at least the time to consider it for a few moments. I won't speak for the Fedora kernel team, but I can't see them really wanting to add this. josh _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
