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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	seife@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Suspend list <swsusp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail.
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 17:48:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B84065.3000106@linuxmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040528215642.GA927@elf.ucw.cz>

Hi.

Pavel Machek wrote:
>>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...
> 
> 
> Uh, yes, right.
> 
> That explains why some people see bad problems I could not
> reproduce. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Stefan, we may want to do echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness in
> suspend script...
> 
> 									Pavel

This applies to suspend2 for 2.6 as well. I recently changed to using the same routines to free memory.

Nigel


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-29  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28  5:00 swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail Rob Landley
2004-05-28 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-29  7:48   ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2004-05-29  9:05   ` Stuart Young
2004-05-29  8:56     ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-29 22:23       ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 10:09         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 10:42           ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-31 10:17         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 11:38           ` Rob Landley
2004-05-31 11:52             ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 10:46               ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-03 12:08                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 22:57             ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-04 12:20               ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 11:50           ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 19:07             ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-05-29 22:36       ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-30  2:21         ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-30 19:47           ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-30 23:23             ` Oliver Neukum
2004-05-31  3:28               ` Rob Landley
2004-05-31  6:18             ` Stuart Young
2004-05-31  8:41               ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-29 11:35     ` Pavel Machek

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