Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm3: swsusp horribly slow on AMD64

Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-09-26T10:06:29Z

On Sunday 26 of September 2004 01:40, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I've just tried to suspend my box and I must admit I've given up after 30
> > minutes (sic!) of waiting when there were only 12% of pages written to
disk.
> > Apparently, swsusp slows down to an unacceptable level after saying "PM:
> > Writing image to disk".
> >
> > The box is an Athlon 64-based notebook. The .config is available at:
> > http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/040925/2.6.9-rc2-mm3.config
> > and the output of dmesg is available at:
> > http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/040925/2.6.9-rc2-mm3-dmesg.log
>
> We have seen something similar after hdparm was used on specific
> machines. Are you using hdparm?

Not explicitly, but it's used by SuSE initscripts to set IDE DMA, AFAICS.
However, the problem did not occur on 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 with the same
initscripts.

Greets,
RJW

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