From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263823AbUE1Thk (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 15:37:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263826AbUE1Thk (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 15:37:40 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:4229 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263823AbUE1Thj (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 15:37:39 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: Pavel Machek Subject: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail. Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 00:00:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405280000.56742.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With swappiness at the default (60), software suspend frees all the memory it needs. With swappiness at 0, software suspend basically doesn't free any memory, and the suspend gets aborted. Just thought I'd mention it. Tried on 2.6.6... Rob -- www.linucon.org: Linux Expo and Science Fiction Convention October 8-10, 2004 in Austin Texas. (I'm the con chair.)