lowercase swsuspswsusp Software Suspend is a suspend to disk implementation in the 2.6 series Linux kernel . It is the Linux equivalent of Microsoft Windows Windows Hibernate OS feature hibernate functionality. TuxOnIce replaces swsusp. To enable swsusp, the following should be selected during kernel configuration pre nowiki Power management options Power management support CONFIG PM Power management options Software Suspend CONFIG SOFTWARE SUSPEND Power management options dev resume partition Default resume partition CONFIG PM STD PARTITION nowiki pre The dev resume partition needs to be replaced by the actual Virtual memory swap partition that is to be used for suspending. Otherwise resume dev resume partition can be given as a parameter during system bootup. The actual suspend is done by pre nowiki echo shutdown sys power disk echo disk sys power state nowiki pre swsusp lacks compression and graphical progress indication which can be provided thru Uswsusp . See also TuxOnIce , the descendant of swsusp http suspend.sf.net muswsusp userspace software for suspending to ram and or disk Category Linux kernel features linux stub ... more details
interface Whereas the current swsusp and uswsusp implementations support writing the image to one swap ... uswsusp and swsusp write at most half the amount of RAM. TuxOnIce was originally called Suspend2 because ... TuxOnIce Wiki Bot generated title ref See also swsusp Hibernate OS feature uswsusp References ... more details
Infobox Software logo screenshot caption developer released initial release 2006 04 21 latest release version 1.0 latest release date release date 2011 03 07 latest preview version latest preview date programming language C programming language C operating system Linux language English genre license GNU General Public License website http suspend.sourceforge.net suspend.sourceforge.net uswsusp userspace swsusp software suspend is a suspend to ram and suspend to disk implementation for the Linux operating system, compatible with kernels 2.6.17 and onwards. It supports both s2ram ACPI standby and s2disk Hibernate OS feature hibernate , as well as a mode called s2both , which saves state to disk and RAM. S2both is intended for use in low battery situations where restoring from ram is desired but can t be relied on as the battery may fail causing a restore from disk to be necessary. Uswsusp supports image checksumming, compression, encryption as well as integration with Splashy . External links http suspend.sourceforge.net Official Site https launchpad.net suspend Launchpad page linux stub Category Linux ... more details
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