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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next prev parent 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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