Re: 2.6.11 issues with S3

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

Hi!

> I am trying to get S3 working on my system running a 2.6.11 (upgraded from
> 2.6.4) kernel. On boot up I can put the system to S3 and then wol using magic
> packets. Subsequent attempts to put the system to S3 fail with the error

Try with recent kernel.

> "stopping tasks failed (208 tasks remaining)". I tried changing the TIMEOUT
> from the default 6 HZ in kernel/power/process.c to a larger number and the
> system is now able to suspend but takes about 20 - 30 seconds for it to go to
> suspend. Why is it taking that long? Also shouldn't the timeout be dependent
> on the number of processes that we are trying to put to suspend vs a constant
> value?
>  
> On my system, the error is easily reproducible with a simple shell script
> that spawns a lot of processes. As the number of processes increase, after
> around 70 odd processes in the system I start seeing failures while trying to
> suspend.

It was not really design to work on stressed system, but feel free to fix it.
Sometimes even make -j 10 on kernel breaks it.
-- 
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         



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