Sort of like that but you don't have to wait until all your 16Gb of RAM are written to disk. AFAU, Dmitry found a cheap way of making consistent snapshots of a

Sort of like that but you don't have to wait until all your 16Gb of RAM are written to disk. AFAU, Dmitry found a cheap way of making consistent snapshots of a running system. BTW, there was a thread on HN relatively recently where someone mentioned that the hard part of hibernation is not restoring the RAM state but bringing all hardware into the right state at boot. That's why hibernation has been so problematic on Linux.