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Instant boot Linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Fmstrat@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Hi all,

Is there a method out there that can "save a hibernate state" to disk, and just permanently boot immediately into that state every time?

It would be OK to lose data used after this point. And ot would also be OK if it required building a custom image based on the hardware, similar to embedded systems.

The goal is to be able to, as quickly as possible, spin up a GPU server when needed, but without using suspend/resume.

Thanks.

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I used to do this for my virtual gaming rig, and the catch is still idle draw. Just one B70 pulls over 30W idle, then there's the nvidia card and then CPU etc, too. As this machine is solely for remote development and inference, I want it fully off.

Now, I guess I do have all the confidential stuff in encrypted ZFS, so I can shutdown the docker containers, unmount ZFS, and suspend. This gives me encryption at rest. The problem is the startup/resume is actually slower than you might think.