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Message-Id: <200709230000.09722.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:09 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: "Christian P. Schmidt" <charlie@...add.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Memory allocation problem with 2.6.22 after suspend/resume cycle
On Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:41, Christian P. Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a strange problem, of course not reproducible. Sometimes
> after a suspend (to ram) and resume cycle, the kernel will try to free
> all memory. This means, all running applications are flushed to swap (as
> long as it is available), caches and buffers stay at around 15MB each.
>
> The following video (traded quality for bandwidth) shows what happens on
> the way from no swap to "swapon -a" (that's the unreadable thing in the
> small shell): http://digadd.de/swapping.avi
>
> The system:
> Linux dnnote 2.6.22.5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 25 18:39:21 AST 2007 x86_64
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Are you using an ATI binary graphics driver?
> A 32bit Kernel is unable to suspend/resume at all. No idea why. dmesg
> shows nothing, logs show nothing. Any ideas for debugging are welcome.
Well, that's interesting.
Can you try in the minimal configuration (ie. boot with init=/bin/bash,
mount /sys, mount /proc and run "echo mem > /sys/power/disk)?
Greetings,
Rafael
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