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

Sebastian Kügler
2006-06-27T23:19:53Z

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On Wednesday 28 June 2006 00:51, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2006-06-28 00:38:59, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 00:22, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > I do not think suspend2 works on more machines than in-kernel
> > > swsusp. Problems are in drivers, and drivers are shared.
> > >
> > > That means that if you have machine where suspend2 works and swsusp
> > > does not, please tell me. I do not think there are many of them.
> >
> > Maybe not machines, but definitely usage scenarios. I've tried both
> > implementations lately, and swsusp would often -- especially under high
> > memory load -- just return from trying, while suspend2 succeeds in
> > freeing enough memory to be able to suspend _every_ time.
>
> Refrigerator fixes should help with this one. Does it still happen in
> 2.6.17?

Last release I tested was 2.6.17-rc6-git7.

> > Is that something uswsusp is likely to change anytime soon?
>
> Actually this is common code for both swsusp and uswsusp; yes this
> should be fixed.

In the above mentioned release it definitely is not fixed.
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