Stephen Rothwell writes:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > On my laptop, suspending to disk is slow. It takes a whole minute, and
> > another minute to unsuspend--if all of core is in use. But it is much
> > faster when I do it not too long after the system was booted, when it has
> > not yet managed to use up most of core.
> >
> > This suggests that it could be nice to make the kernel empty its caches, and
> > mark all that core "unused", when a suspend is about to happen. I don't
> > know the details of how suspension works, so I am not sure this is possible,
> > but I think there are hooks for doing something in the kernel before a
> > suspend.
>
> Just to try something, could you please take the program below and change
> the 172 to be about 15-20 less that then number of MB of physical RAM
> you have, then compile and run it and then try to suspend to disk
> and see how long it takes. On my Thinkpad 600E, it changes the time
> to suspend from ~30 seconds to < 10 seconds.
>
> This is an experiment to see if your BIOS is faster to suspend
> when most of memory is zero'd.
Interesting. I've just tried this on my Dell Inspiron 3200 (144
MBytes) with a 110 MByte block of zeroes. The time went from 47
seconds (filled with 1s) to 20 seconds (filled with 0s).
Filling programme appended.
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
===============================================================================
/* memfill.c
Source file for memfill (fill memory with pattern and wait).
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard Gooch
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Richard Gooch may be reached by email at rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
The postal address is:
Richard Gooch, c/o ATNF, P. O. Box 76, Epping, N.S.W., 2121, Australia.
*/
/* This programme will fill memory with a specified pattern and wait.
Written by Richard Gooch 30-AUG-2000
Last updated by Richard Gooch 30-AUG-2000
*/
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
char length_modifier;
signed long size_bytes, count, size_multiplier;
unsigned char pattern;
char *size_ptr;
unsigned char *array;
static char usage_string[] = "Usage:\tmemfill length[b|k|m] value";
if (argc != 3)
{
fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", usage_string);
exit (1);
}
size_ptr = argv[1];
length_modifier = size_ptr[strlen (size_ptr) - 1];
if ( isdigit (length_modifier) )
{
size_bytes = strtol (size_ptr, NULL, 0);
}
else
{
switch (length_modifier)
{
case 'b':
case 'B':
size_multiplier = 1;
break;
case 'k':
case 'K':
size_multiplier = 1024;
break;
case 'm':
case 'M':
size_multiplier = 1024 * 1024;
break;
default:
fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", usage_string);
exit (1);
}
size_ptr[strlen (size_ptr) - 1] = '\0';
size_bytes = strtol (size_ptr, NULL, 0) * size_multiplier;
}
pattern = strtol (argv[2], NULL, 0);
if ( ( array = malloc (size_bytes) ) == NULL )
{
fprintf (stderr, "Error allocating %ld bytes\n", size_bytes);
exit (1);
}
fprintf (stderr, "Filling...");
for (count = 0; count < size_bytes; ++count) *array++ = pattern;
fprintf (stderr, "\tfilled. Press control-C to stop\n");
while (1) pause ();
return (0);
} /* End Function main */
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