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LPC: Booting Linux in five secondsLPC: Booting Linux in five secondsPosted Sep 22, 2008 21:16 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by flewellyn Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
Why would I want to do suspend-to-disk if I can have a clean boot in five seconds? Waking my machine from the suspend takes way longer than that.
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LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Posted Sep 22, 2008 23:20 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Your applications might have nonpersistent state you want to preserve.
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Posted Sep 22, 2008 23:49 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] That's what I used to think, too. Nowadays most of my applications do a reasonable job of coming up again where I left them before a shutdown, so it's not a big deal.
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Posted Sep 23, 2008 0:26 UTC (Tue) by rlk (guest, #47505) [Link]
Emacs doesn't; shell buffers and xterms certainly don't have all their state preserved (possibly megabytes of output, and yes, I do care about that). Much less any background processes I happen to have left running actively (Gutenprint tests, for example).
As I said previously, fast reboot and suspend/resume solve different problems and shouldn't be considered alternatives for each other.
That could be fixed Posted Sep 23, 2008 1:12 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] It would be possible to make Emacs session-aware.
That could be fixed Posted Sep 23, 2008 7:29 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
You'd need to modify a good bit of Lisp (at least you'd need to think of
something to do with process sentinels).
Hm, perhaps a shutdown/restart could appear to the Lisp code like all the
That could be fixed Posted Sep 23, 2008 15:00 UTC (Tue) by shapr (guest, #9077) [Link]
What about emacs desktop? I've been using that for years.
Right now emacs does not save the state of all the open buffers etc until I explicitly exit, but if it saved every minute or so even crashes would have most session state saved.
That could be fixed Posted Sep 23, 2008 15:14 UTC (Tue) by rlk (guest, #47505) [Link]
The issue isn't just open file buffers:
* Shell buffers (input and output history -- including input and output history of the shell, which isn't quite the same thing as the emacs idea of that)
* Command output buffers and other temporary buffers, including *scratch*
* Files that you're looking at that may get changed behind your back that you deliberately haven't reverted yet.
* The state of the lisp world
Obviously, emacs loses all of this if it crashes, but this in the context of choosing to reboot vs. suspend/resume. I'll take my chances on crashes, and I do save my work, but it's still more efficient to keep a session going as long as possible.
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Posted Sep 23, 2008 7:54 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
> Nowadays most of my applications do a reasonable job of coming up again
> where I left them before a shutdown, so it's not a big deal.
But they can take an awful long time to do so. Don't know if suspend/resume is faster, because I have never trusted it enough to find out. Perhaps a middle way would be best of all - suspending and resuming individual applications, perhaps even with the application's cooperation.
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds Posted Sep 23, 2008 8:23 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
Ahem, actually exactly what ebirdie said in a comment further up.
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