On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:30:34PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > Does applying the following on top make any difference? > > ==== CUT HERE ==== > PM: Shrink memory before suspend No, this patch didn't change anything either. IIRC I get failures while free(1) shows as much as 20MB free RAM (ie. without buffers/caches). Additionaly nr_free_pages (from /proc/vmstat) stays at about 800-1000 under heavy memory pressure (gitk on full linux repository). --- babbling follows --- Hmm, I wonder if it's really timing issue then wouldn't be the case that lowering swappiness sysctl would make problem more visible? I've vm.swappiness=15, would testing with higher value make any sense? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html