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Linux: Kexec Hibernation Performance

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 3, 2007

“Ying Huang continues to work on his kexec-based hibernation
patches. Currently only supporting the i386 architecture, Ying
notes, ‘the setup of hibernation/restore is fairly complex. I will
continue working on simplifying.’ Following up to the latest round
of kexec-based hibernation patches posted to the Linux Kernel
mailing list it was asked how performance would compare to other
hibernation solutions. Ying suggested that with not-yet implemented
optimizations it should offer comparable performance…”

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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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