Re: [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!]

On 29/03/2012, at 22:04, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:51:44 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
>>> try tuxonice - allows you to suspend to a file on disk as well as ram
>>> or swap.  Added bonus is its much more robust than in-kernel, and the
>>> dev (Nigel) is very responsive if help or bugfixes (usually for new
>>> kernel versions) are needed.
>
> I'd question this seeing as it hasn't been released for kernel 3.1 or
> later. Not that it is a bad choice, it is not, but it is certainly not
> keeping up.
>
>> True, but I don't want to have too many write-actions to the internal
>> SSD, which means that I'd want the file on the SD as well...
>
> TuxOnIce lets you specify where you want the hibernate file.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> X-Modem- A device on the losing end of an encounter with lightning.

and dont forget, its not a swapfile so you only write once on hibernate, and read once on restart.  and you can delete/recreate the file in between if you wish - its only used for hibernate.

billK