Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

[Fabio Comolli]

Hi

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Shannon McMackin <smcmackin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> Just to add my 2 cents as a user of TOI. ÂEvery distro and release I've
> tried has one major issue with kernel hibernation. ÂUpon resume when
> hibernating large images, there's a residual footprint in swap. ÂEvery
> further hibernation creates a larger footprint, to the order of an
> additional 5-7% each time. ÂNobody has ever cared in any forum to
> explain why or how I might change that.
>

Actually I'm not seeing this with uswsusp and 2.6.29.2:

fcomolli@hawking:~> dmesg|grep 'Preparing to enter system sleep state S4'
ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S4
ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S4
ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S4
fcomolli@hawking:~> free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2039692     901252    1138440          0     118980     395236
-/+ buffers/cache:     387036    1652656
Swap:      2104504          0    2104504

I limit the image size to 950M.

Regards,
Fabio
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