To: ncunningham@linuxmail.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:05:40 +0200
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From: Pascal Schmidt <pascal.schmidt@email.de>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:50:08 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> The problem isn't really that you're out of memory. Rather, the memory
> is so fragmented that swsusp is unable to get an order 8 allocation in
> which to store its metadata. There isn't really anything you can do to
> avoid this issue apart from eating memory (which swsusp is doing
> anyway).

That's one megabyte, right? Can't we preallocate that on boot, while
there's still chance to get that much contiguous memory? If the
user has swsusp compiled into his kernel, he probably wants it to
function, so it's not really "wasted".

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal
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