{"id":1330,"date":"2006-03-22T04:36:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T02:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/suspend2-variae\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T04:36:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T02:36:19","slug":"suspend2-variae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/suspend2-variae\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspend2, variae."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\tGaah. Trying to fix a bug in guidance<\/a> didn’t work out (yet?), so I guess
\nI’d better call it a day, again.
\n\t\tThe past days have been quite OK, last weekend Kim and I started building a new home for the
\ntwo chinchilla’s we share a flat with. That should increase the space that they can use
\nconsiderably. The biggest gain will be in the height, which more than doubles. They’re climbers, so
\nthat’s a big plus.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tLast night, I build a new kernel for my notebook. Took the 2.6.16 vanilla and patches it
\nwith suspend2<\/a> to have faster and nicer suspend to disk.
\nSuspend to RAM is quite useless for this notebook since the battery is more or less dead. It loads
\nup to 18% which is just enough to change power sockets, but nothing you would trust offline for
\nlonger than 5 minutes. The second patch I applied is Con Kolivas’ -ck patch which has a different
\ni\/o scheduler as the default. This patch improves system responsiveness under (I\/O) load
\nconsiderably, and given the slow harddisk, that’s more than noticeable. The fbsplash and vesafb-tng
\npatches add a nice splashscreen to the suspend-to-disk process, for which I’ve created my own
\ntheme.
\n\t\tWhat buggers<\/em> me about suspend2 though is that it’s not yet found its way into the
\nlinux kernel. To explain that a bit, suspend2 has been developed out of tree, but is well tested,
\ndocumented, has an active maintainer (= one that doesn’t reply “send a patch” by default), supports
\nencryption and compression (doubling the speed of reading and writing the memory image) of the
\nsuspend image, is much more stable in terms of freezing processes, supports writing the suspend
\nimage to regular files and is much more configurable in general. Yet Pavel Machek refuses to even
\nconsider working together with Nigel Cunningham to get suspend2 merged<\/a> for the sake of happy users who just want a fast
\nand reliable suspend-to-disk implementation in Linux. Nigel on the other hand has been helpful for
\nusers for years, has done everything the kernel people asked to make the code mergeable. Pavel has
\ngotten a lot of criticism lately, not that that changed anything in his attitude. In november he
\nbegan realizing that the in-kernel swsusp isn’t all that scalable and that users demand more. So he
\nbegan writing swsusp from scratch in userspace(!), adding another one or two years until the
\nfeatureset of suspend2 is available to users who don’t want to patch their kernels. That pisses a
\nlot of people of. It’s time someone kicks that guy swiftly in the butt. I’ve been helping testing
\nsuspend2 releases for about 3 years now, and the contrast between two developers just cannot be
\nbigger. Lately, Pavel seems to have won the battle of PM maintainers, Nigel announced<\/a> that he’s given up trying to merge his
\npatches, but will maintain them as an out-of-tree patch. Sad. Well done, Pavel. Sigh, I’ll stop
\nranting at this point, just wanted to raise awareness for that topic though.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tToday, I started writing a paper which I plan to submit for FrOSCon<\/a>. It’s about Guerilla Marketing and the approach we’re
\ntaking in KDE. I’m also writing on an article for the german c’t magazine, which deals with KDE in
\ngeneral, stuff like dcop, kio, a couple of desktop-wide concepts. In order to get a better idea what
\nthe ‘improved workflow’ in plasma means, I asked Aaron if he could clear that up for me. He swiftly
\ncalled me and we had a nice and interesting phone call for about an hour. Thanks for taking the time
\nto explain that stuff, dude!\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOw, and Ha<\/a>,Ha<\/a>, those made my day.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaah. Trying to fix a bug in guidance didn’t work out (yet?), so I guess I’d better call it a day, again. The past days have been quite OK, last weekend Kim and I started building a new home for the two chinchilla’s we share a flat with. That should increase the space that they… Continue reading Suspend2, variae.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}