From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: swsusp: 8-order allocation failure on demand (was: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:47:51 +0200
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On Wednesday 13 of October 2004 19:29, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 of October 2004 10:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > > > Ok... And I guess it is nearly impossible to trigger this on demand,
> > > > > right?
> > > 
> > > I think it is possible.  Seemingly, on my box it's only a question of 
the 
> > > number of apps started.  I think I can work out a method to trigger it
> > > 90% of the time or so.  Please let me know if it's worthy of doing.
> > 
> > Yes, it would certainly help with testing...

Well, I can do that, it seems, 100% of the time.

The method is to do "init 5" (my default runlevel is 3, because vts become 
unreadable after I start X), log into KDE (as a non-root), start some X apps 
at random (eg. I run gkrellm, kmail, konqueror, Mozilla FireFox 32-bit w/ 
Flash plugin, and konsole with "su -") and run updatedb (as root, of course).

Apparently, running updatedb is essential.  After it finishes, on my box, you 
can forget of suspending to disk from under the X+KDE combo, even if the X 
apps (ie. kmail, konqueror, FireFox) are stopped before.  However, if 
updatedb is not run, the box usually suspends successfully.

Greets,
RJW

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