[GLLUG] no swap installation
Melson, Paul
PMelson at sequoianet.com
Wed Oct 13 08:50:29 EDT 2004
> One advantage a partition has is that it can be used for software
> suspend, if you can get it working. I just tried with kernel
> 2.6.9, and
> it is finally working for me; all I have to do is unload driverloader
> (the commercial ndiswrapper) and everything else works. (Oh, and
> pre-emption borks the resume process for me, killing the process that
> initiated the suspension, so I shut off pre-emption.) I don't
> think you can do that with a file.
The swsusp2 patch supports suspending to swap file.
(http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/) I think Mandrake users have it
already or can at least get it from Cooker mirrors.
PaulM
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