Dormancy management method and related device

Abstract

The invention provides a dormancy management method and a related device. The method is applied to the device which comprises a memorizer and a plurality of execution programs. A working set corresponding to each execution program is stored in the memorizer. At first, a dormancy instruction is received, and then the corresponding dormancy instruction executes the operation setting the working sets on the execution programs, so that the size of the working sets, stored in the memorizer, of the execution programs is adjusted. Finally, a dormancy image is generated according to the adjusted memorizer, and then stored in a storage device. Under the circumstance of not increasing the cost of hardware, by utilizing the operation setting the working sets for periodically adjusting the capacity of the working sets of the execution programs in the memorizer, the size of the whole memorizer image can be reduced, the size of the dormancy image is reduced, the copying time for restoring a system of the device from the dormancy state can be shortened, the restoring time is shortened, the response time of fast starting can be shortened, and users can have better use experience.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a dormancy management method and a device thereof, in particular to a dormancy management method and a device thereof capable of automatically adjusting the size of a dormancy image. Background technique [0002] In existing operating systems, for power saving considerations, devices, such as computer systems and handheld devices, can choose to enter a power saving mode such as a hibernate mode to turn off unnecessary power or shut down. When the device enters the dormant mode, the operating system will store the data in the current dynamic memory to the hard disk to become an image file with the same size as the memory capacity. And when the device recovers from sleep mode to normal mode, the operating system will copy this file to the memory, so that the work screen when the user starts up last time or before sleep can be quickly restored and displayed. [0003] In addition to general computer functions, the new generation o...

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[0004] However, the current fast boot function such as Intel's fast boot (Intel Rapid StartTechnology, referred to as iRST) service is only passively waiting for the user to enter the suspend (Suspend) mode and only releases the standby page list (standby page list), when the system When recovering from hibernation, it is still very time-consuming to read the files in the hard disk. Therefore, the capacity of the memory image (Memory image) copied to the hibernation partition (Hibernation partition) by the current fast boot still has room for improvement. At the same time, the current fast boot function cannot dynamically adjust the memory usage

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