On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/16/12 8:30 AM, Dave Jones wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:52:27AM +0100, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: >> >> > >> >> Of course, please test the above separately. :-) >> > >> > >> > >> > Ok, I'll test this when I'm at home. >> > >> > >> > >> > BTW: dropping the caches helps, when some files seem corrupted. >> > >> > Today /usr/bin/okular was broken. >> > >> > After setting vm.drop_caches=1 it worked again. >> > >> >> > >> On Linux 2.6.38 I'm unable to reproduce the issue. >> > >> Only 2.6.37 seems to be affected. >> > >> So, I'm moving over to 2.6.38. :) >> > > >> > Bad news: >> > I saw the issue on 3.x too but thought it's because my IdeaPad s10 is crap. >> > Now with my shiny new Lenovo x121e I have the same issue! :-( >> > >> > OpenSUSE 12.1, kernel 3.2.7. >> > After a few suspend2disk iterations random files are corrupted. >> > But only cached files. A reboot solves the problem. > > Just to be clear - you see _data_ corruption in files, but only > until a reboot, and after that they are ok? Ok, reading above > about using drop_caches that sounds like the case. Yes. A reboot always solved the data corruption. drop_caches solved it in 99% of all cases. On-disk data was never corrupted. -- Thanks, //richard _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
