From: Pavel M. <pa...@su...> - 2002-09-13 18:40:12
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Hi! > lately I observed problems with swsusp. Only if I am suspending from > console right after the boot there are enough pages free....I did some > research on the net and found that the rmap things does not free enough > pages. Then either rmap is seriously broken or we are not calling it the right way. > AFAIU when suspending to disk the kernel (respective the vm) is asked to > swap as many pages out as possible and creates an image from the remaining > pages and writes that to disk. While that seems to be at first a great > idea it depends - by design - upon the ability to free more than half of > the ram. Why can one not stop all processes, lock the kernel, and write > all pages to an image in swap space? It is far easier to fix VM than do that. Pavel -- Worst form of spam? Adding advertisment signatures ala sourceforge.net. What goes next? Inserting advertisment *into* email? |