Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:37:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:37:24 -0500 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:37248 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:35:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:47:58 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kamil Iskra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with APM suspend and ext3 Message-ID: <20011128004758.C37@toy.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <3C03CEFB.780622F1@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3C03CEFB.780622F1@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:35:55AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > thank you for the clear and convincing problem description. > > It's becoming increasingly clear that we need to do something with > ext3 and laptops. > > I don't understand what can be causing the behaviour which you > report. Presumably, some application is generating disk writes, > and kjournald is thus performing disk IO every five seconds. > But I don't know why this should prevent the machine from suspending, > nor why it's different with other filesystems. Disk writes should not prevent suspend... unless he has buggy apm bios. But I can not imagine bug doing _that_... -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html. - 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/