From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751001AbWBRALI (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:11:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751038AbWBRALI (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:11:08 -0500 Received: from cust8446.nsw01.dataco.com.au ([203.171.93.254]:32912 "EHLO cust8446.nsw01.dataco.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751001AbWBRALG (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:11:06 -0500 From: Nigel Cunningham Organization: Cyclades Corporation To: Richard Mittendorfer Subject: Re: [swsusp] not enough memory Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:07:58 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel References: <20060218005814.6548092d.delist@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20060218005814.6548092d.delist@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3021437.pEjCYsp8F4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602181008.02801.ncunningham@cyclades.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3021437.pEjCYsp8F4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Richard. On Saturday 18 February 2006 09:58, Richard Mittendorfer wrote: > Hi *, > > On my 64MB notebook I get the following message, when going swsusp: > > .. > swsusp: Need to copy 15526 pages > swsusp: Not enough free memory > Error -12 suspending > .. > > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 62760 59884 2876 0 3828 16052 > -/+ buffers/cache: 40004 22756 > Swap: 200804 30316 170488 > > If I end all apps but the XServer it works. I've allready added some > more swapspace, but that didn't help. So, how much memory will I need > for a successful suspend or better (since i can't stuff any more into > it) is there a way to minimize the amount needed? swsusp needs to be able to free half your memory to be able to suspend. I=20 don't know it intimately, but you may well be failing to do this. Being=20 completely biased (and not unwilling to admit it!), I'd suggest you try=20 Suspend2 (www.suspend2.net). It doesn't have such a limitation. Regards, Nigel --nextPart3021437.pEjCYsp8F4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD9mViN0y+n1M3mo0RAvn3AKCd0filiCiVLsAfKFuNLUHWSS/HAgCcDJBj W+gZF+vI94jbJhPvnVFI9U8= =MOJ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3021437.pEjCYsp8F4--