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From: "Christian P. Schmidt" <charlie@digadd.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Memory allocation problem with 2.6.22 after suspend/resume cycle
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:38:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F65E56.8090701@digadd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709230000.09722.rjw@sisk.pl>

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:41, Christian P. Schmidt wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a strange problem, of course not reproducible. Sometimes
>> after a suspend (to ram) and resume cycle, the kernel will try to free
>> all memory. This means, all running applications are flushed to swap (as
>> long as it is available), caches and buffers stay at around 15MB each.
>>
>> The following video (traded quality for bandwidth) shows what happens on
>> the way from no swap to "swapon -a" (that's the unreadable thing in the
>> small shell): http://digadd.de/swapping.avi
>>
>> The system:
>> Linux dnnote 2.6.22.5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 25 18:39:21 AST 2007 x86_64
>> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> Are you using an ATI binary graphics driver?

Yes. I do not (yet) have a choice... can't wait for the open source drivers.


>> A 32bit Kernel is unable to suspend/resume at all. No idea why. dmesg
>> shows nothing, logs show nothing. Any ideas for debugging are welcome.
> 
> Well, that's interesting.
> 
> Can you try in the minimal configuration (ie. boot with init=/bin/bash,
> mount /sys, mount /proc and run "echo mem > /sys/power/disk)?

Which? the 32bit or the 64bit?

Regards,
Chris

> Greetings,
> Rafael


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-23 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-22 15:41 Memory allocation problem with 2.6.22 after suspend/resume cycle Christian P. Schmidt
2007-09-22 22:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-23 12:38   ` Christian P. Schmidt [this message]
2007-09-23 13:03     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-23 16:19       ` Christian P. Schmidt
2007-09-23 18:28         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-23 19:18           ` Christian P. Schmidt
2007-09-23 20:12             ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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