LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
Posted Sep 26, 2008 2:12 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338)In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by bronson
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I thought restore from hibernate spent most of its time reading the (potentially multi-gigabyte) memory image from disk. Booting doesn't need to load 500 megabytes of firefox into memory, etc.; is there some reason to think that restoring your individual apps would be faster than restoring the hibernate memory image?
Posted Sep 26, 2008 17:09 UTC (Fri)
by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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I admit, it's all speculation at this point. :)
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
Because -- in theory -- you wouldn't have to restore every application, (don't worry about freezing the memory used by all those useless panel apps). And the apps themselves could be smarter (Firefox wouldn't try to persist its in-memory caches). Crash-only apps could just be terminated and re-launched (IM clients, mail clients, etc), no need to write them all out.