On Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:41, Christian P. Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a strange problem, of course not reproducible. Sometimes
> after a suspend (to ram) and resume cycle, the kernel will try to free
> all memory. This means, all running applications are flushed to swap (as
> long as it is available), caches and buffers stay at around 15MB each.
> 
> The following video (traded quality for bandwidth) shows what happens on
> the way from no swap to "swapon -a" (that's the unreadable thing in the
> small shell): http://digadd.de/swapping.avi
> 
> The system:
> Linux dnnote 2.6.22.5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 25 18:39:21 AST 2007 x86_64
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Are you using an ATI binary graphics driver?

> A 32bit Kernel is unable to suspend/resume at all. No idea why. dmesg
> shows nothing, logs show nothing. Any ideas for debugging are welcome.

Well, that's interesting.

Can you try in the minimal configuration (ie. boot with init=/bin/bash,
mount /sys, mount /proc and run "echo mem > /sys/power/disk)?

Greetings,
Rafael
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