Re: Suspend to RAM issus on a Dell 700m

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> I finally got the "mem" state to function on my laptop (a state which I 
> use extensively in that "other" OS when I'm working.)
> 
> A few issues though... my cpu, upon return, powers up to full-speed 
> making it impossible to truly conserve power, sort of defeating the 
> whole process.
> 
> It seems a rogue process (one which I can't kill)... listed only as 'sh 
> -i" is using ~99% of the available CPU cycles. I have no idea where it's 
> coming from.
> 
> Additionally the system gets less and less responsive with each return 
> from the "mem" state. Probably due to many of these rogue processes 
> building up and bogging the system down.
> 
> Below is the script I used, which I found online and modified (very 
> little) as needed. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Oh, I'm 
> using FC4 w/ 2.6.12 (unpatched.)

Are you using preempt by chance? See wchan where the sh -i is
running... then debug it :-).
								Pavel
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