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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham-oKK1aGe2n869koe0gwxAeg@public.gmane.org>
To: Ken Hughes <khughes-kam3zbT8ll8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: ACPI List <acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Re: S4bios support for 2.5.63
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:40:42 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046976042.1699.13.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030306074226.GC750-peapQs0eLv2IgHrOsx/gaWNy84NFWbr7VpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 20:42, Ken Hughes wrote:
> I also noticed that when the suspend works, the "freeing memory: ....."
> messages prints out about 100 periods.  The first 20 or so come slowly,
> then it zips through most of the others.  When it oops's, it prints out
> about 15 or so periods before the panic.  This seems similar to what 
> Bert was
> saying in an earlier message:

This is because of the algorithm being used. 2.5 swsusp currently tries
to free as much memory as it can, and then writes the remainder to disk.
Freeing the memory can take quite a while. A port of the 2.4 code is in
progress (hopefully it will be accepted :>).

Regards,

Nigel



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030306072229.GA750@budgie.we1.client2.attbi.com>
     [not found] ` <20030306072229.GA750-peapQs0eLv2IgHrOsx/gaWNy84NFWbr7VpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2003-03-06  7:42   ` Re: S4bios support for 2.5.63 Ken Hughes
     [not found]     ` <20030306074226.GC750-peapQs0eLv2IgHrOsx/gaWNy84NFWbr7VpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2003-03-06 18:40       ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2003-03-03 11:51 Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-26 21:13 Pavel Machek
2003-03-02 13:31 ` bert hubert
2003-03-02 18:44   ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-02 20:21 ` bert hubert
2003-03-02 22:22   ` Alan Cox
     [not found]     ` <1046643757.3700.20.camel-MMxVpc8zpTQVh3rx8e9g/fyykp6/JSeS3vcXtXqGYxw@public.gmane.org>
2003-03-03  7:42       ` Chris Bennett
2003-03-03  0:39   ` Roger Luethi
2003-03-03  2:08     ` [ACPI] " Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-03 11:31       ` bert hubert
2003-03-03 12:23         ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-03 12:35           ` bert hubert
2003-03-03 12:41             ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]               ` <20030303124133.GH20929-jyMamyUUXNJG4ohzP4jBZS1Fcj925eT/@public.gmane.org>
2003-03-03 14:07                 ` Troels Haugboelle

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