[desktop-discuss] Re: suspend/resume

[Garrett D'Amore]

Brian Nitz wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Thanks for the information.  Once suspend works on SPARC, could it be 
> triggered on a per session basis to make Sun Ray sessions use less 
> resources when session card is removed?

I'm not sure that this is practical, unless you're suggesting that once 
_all_ Sun Ray sessions are "idle", the system could suspend to RAM.

Or are you talking about suspending the Sun Ray itself?  (That would be 
nonsensical in some sense, because Sun Ray's don't run Solaris, and they 
are very low power devices as it is... a Sun Ray 2 only uses a few 
watts, IIRC.)

Btw, SUSPEND _does_ work on SPARC, and has for a long time, though it is 
only supported on desktop class systems.  Only on x86 platforms is this 
feature "new".

    -- Garrett
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote On 04/30/07 20:50,:
>
>>
>>
>> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/30/07, Brian Nitz <Brian.Nitz at sun.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We had a discussion after the most recent Irish Opensolaris Users 
>>>> Group
>>>> meeting about whether as suspend and hibernate improve better and as
>>>> memory technology improves (e.g. flash memory), we might eventually 
>>>> move
>>>> away from the paradigm of starting up (hardware detection, loading 
>>>> libs
>>>> into memory...) and shutting down as part of daily work flow.
>>>
>>>
>>> But are suspend/hibernate currently usable at all under (Open)Solaris?
>>
>>
>> Not on x86 yet - there's an internal project which has suspend-to-RAM
>> working on Ultra 20 workstations, but a lot of driver updates will be
>> needed to make it work on other hardware.
>>
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