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Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z by quotemstr on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:45AM (#13156136)
> reboot can pick apart the previous bits in memory and reconstruct what was going on before it crashed

What you're proposing is possible in theory, but no general purpose operating system I've seen actually attempts to recover page cache state from uncleared RAM upon reboot.

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Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z by jrockway on Monday December 12, 2016 @03:00AM (#13156417)
Linux has PRINTK_PERSIST [1] to recover the printk logs after (warm) reboot.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/13/45

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Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z by reitanqild on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:06AM (#13156971)
Something related though battery (or capacitor) backed write-cache on high end servers.
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