Hi.
I'm running ubuntu 11.04 on my thinkpad X200 laptop with their 2.6.38
kernel. Whenever I copy a lot of data to my harddrive without the power
connected (cryptsetup:ed drive and ubuntus eCryptfs for home directory
(yeah I know, that's two levels of encryption))) the copy stops after
500-1000 megabyte. It'll just sit there, nothing more happening, my
firefox goes into blocking (greys out). If I then issue a "sync" command
in the terminal, things resume just as normal, until another 500-1000
megabyte has been copied. This doesn't happen if I have the power cable
connected.
I interpret this as when the laptop is in laptop-mode, it doesn't flush
data to drive when memory is "full". Is this a known problem with 2.6.38
kernel, or might it be something ubuntu specific? I find it strange that
not more people are hit by this...
Any thoughts?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx
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