From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: Re: S4bios support for 2.5.63 Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:40:42 +1300 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <1046976042.1699.13.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams> References: <20030306072229.GA750@budgie.we1.client2.attbi.com> <20030306074226.GC750@budgie.we1.client2.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: <20030306074226.GC750-peapQs0eLv2IgHrOsx/gaWNy84NFWbr7VpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ken Hughes Cc: ACPI List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com