Hi. On 01/04/10 08:06, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>>>> Wouldn't it also increase the memory requirements? >>>> >>>> Not really, or just a little bit (the size of the buffer). I'm talking about >>>> the image that's created atomically after we've frozen devices. >>> >>> The buffer would be the size of the compressed image. >> >> Not necessarily if the image is compressed in chunks. According to >> measurements I did some time ago, 256 KiB chunks were sufficient. > > I must be missing something. You're talking about doing compression of > the image during the atomic copy, right? If that's the case, where do > the 256KiB chunks come in? Ah, we're talking about different things. I wasn't thinking about the size of buffers for compression, but instead where this compressed image would be stored (leading into the 1/6th extra below). Regards, Nigel _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
