Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>]

Hi.

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 07:09, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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> >>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
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> Pavel> Hi!
> >> Was trying to swsusp my 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 laptop tonight. It churned
> >> for a while, but didn't hibernate. Here are the messages.
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> >> .........................swsusp: Need to copy 34850 pages Sep 23
> >> 16:53:37 voldemort kernel: hibernate: page allocation
> >> failure. order:8, mode:0x120 Sep 23 16:53:37 voldemort kernel:
> Pavel> Out of memory... Try again with less loaded system. 
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> The system was no more loaded than usual. I have 1GB memory and 4GB of
> swap defined. I almost never touch swap. It might have been 100mb into
> the 4Gb of swap when this happened. 
> 
> What would cause it to be out of memory? 
> swsup needs to be reliable... rebooting when you are using your memory
> kinda defeats the purpose of swsusp. 

The problem isn't really that you're out of memory. Rather, the memory
is so fragmented that swsusp is unable to get an order 8 allocation in
which to store its metadata. There isn't really anything you can do to
avoid this issue apart from eating memory (which swsusp is doing
anyway).

Regards,

Nigel