Re: software-suspend-2.0.0.105-for-2.4.27 broken?

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>]

Hi.

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 05:23, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Hello!

First, I should mention that your posting should really go to one of the
mailing lists on Berlios. I'll cc there now :>

> I applied to a vanilla kernel the following patches from
> software-suspend-2.0.0.105-for-2.4.27:
> 
> 10-preempt
> 10-preempt-log
> 20-software-suspend-linux-2.4.27-rev2-whole
> 30-software-suspend-core-2.0.0.104-whole
> 31-software-suspend-core-2.0.0.105-incremental
> 
> First of all:
> After booting this kernel, I can't see any /proc/swsusp entries, but
> /proc/sys/kernel/swsusp exists.

Yes, that's because recent versions use /proc/software_suspend/ instead.

> When trying to hibernate, suspension is canceled, because there wouldn't
> be enough space in the swap device - which is obviously wrong. I've got
> 512 MB RAM and the swap partition has the same size. When trying to
> hibernate, RAM is used half and the swap partition isn't used at all.

Hmm. It should work, and I'm using 2.4.27 on my laptop. That said, I'm
working on some improvements to suspend's memory management. 106 should
be out shortly.

Regards,

Nigel
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