Re: [swsusp] not enough memory

[Pavel Machek]

On So 18-02-06 18:57:59, Richard Mittendorfer wrote:
> Also sprach Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> (Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:11:16
> +0100):
> > On Sat 18-02-06 00:58:14, Richard Mittendorfer wrote:
> > > If I end all apps but the XServer it works. I've allready added some
> > > more swapspace, but that didn't help. So, how much memory will I
> > > need for a successful suspend or better (since i can't stuff any
> > > more into  it) is there a way to minimize the amount needed?
> > 
> > 128MB should be enough for you. 
> 
> Swap? 128M was my first attempt -- OOM when the box was heavily loaded.
> IIRC no effect on swsusp - there are 64M Ram + 2M Video + Kernel + X?. 
> The reason I did it were some google results talking about free pages.
> There were some solutions talking about adding swap.
>  
> (Ram? Would be the way to go, but it's fully loaded.)

RAM. No ammount of swap will help you.

> > Or try modifying try_to_free memory
> > routine to retry shrink_all_mem few more times, with schedule()  in
> > between...
> 
> Uhh. I don't think this will be a good idea /me ha[ck|rm]ing good ol'
> linux source. ;-)

It should be easy. It is quite hard to loose much data this way ;-).

								Pavel
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