Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964832AbVLJWVs (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:21:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750905AbVLJWVs (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:21:48 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:23736 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbVLJWVr (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:21:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:21:49 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: adi@hexapodia.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz Subject: Re: swsusp performance problems in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 Message-Id: <20051210142149.f3f8fc02.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200512060005.04556.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <20051205081935.GI22168@hexapodia.org> <200512060005.04556.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.8 (GTK+ 2.8.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 15 "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > Till now, we have used the simplistic approach > based on freeing as much memory as possible before suspend. Now, we > are freeing only as much memory as necessary, which is on the other > end of the scale, so to speak. You might want to play with ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc5/2.6.15-rc5-mm1/broken-out/drop-pagecache.patch. That's a fast-and-easy way of freeing up quite a lot of memory. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/