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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by whatever1 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:38PM (#26743475)
Have no clue from hardware, but why we cannot take a full memory snapshot to the hard disk and then just load it back bit to bit ?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by H8crilA on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:40PM (#26743494)
The "memory", or more like "relevant state" is spread across lots of hardware pieces. It's not just RAM. Saving all RAM blocks is indeed easy. Consider the RAM of the graphics card as an example, it can have lots of complicated structures stored by the running programs.
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