Re: swsusp / suspend2 reliability (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: Suspend2 - Request for review & inclusion in -mm)

Sebastian Kügler
2006-06-28T23:10:26Z

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On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:19, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:53, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Okay, can I get some details? Like how much memory does system have,
> > > what stress test causes the failure?
> >
> > The machine has 1GB of RAM, filling it up beyond 500MB, maybe 600MB
> > usually made swsusp a problem. I'd need to close apps then to be able to
> > suspend.
>
> That sounds strange to me as I have never had any problems of this kind
> with swsusp and I sometimes have RAM almost 100% full before suspend
> (there's 1.5 GB on my box).
>
> First, have you tried setting the size of the image using
> /sys/power/image_size?

Nope, didn't try that (and only just now read in the docs that it existed).

> Second, the swsusp's memory shrinker has been reworked recently and the
> patch should be in the latest git. Could you please check if the problems
> persist with the newest -git kernels?

I'll see what I can do, but as I said in the other email, time is limited at
the moment.

Thanks for the pointer, though.
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