On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:30:36 -0600
Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

> On 2007.03.08 11:44:08 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > On Mar 8, 2007, at 11:25 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
> > >	But I would think getting a reference implementation for a
> > >	set of hardware could be, though I would expect a 'suspend
> > >	to disk' to be much more interesting and generally
> > >	applicable.
> > 
> > I'll amend that further, and make that suspend to swap.
> 
> But what happens if there is stuff in the swap?  E.g., 
> 
>     physical RAM > total swap - swap in use
> 
Then you can't do it.  

The systems I've used in the past that had suspend-to-disk required
that the disk area be preallocated. 



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb