Re: SL-5500 crash on suspend theory

On 4/27/06, Arieh Skliarouk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have got an theory regarding spontaneous SL-5500 OZ 3.5.4 crash during
> suspend.
>
> Looks like it happens, when kernel have too much data in buffers to sync
> back to the media (SD card).
> When buffers don't manage to get on disk in time ( e.g. before the general
> halt), the kernel stuck.
>
> This also explains frequency of crash-during-suspend cases while PDA is in
> craddle, when the files transfer from or to computer just occured, and no
> forceful sync was done.

Sounds like one of those embeddix problems rearing its ugly head
again. You could try adding:
sync
sleep 5
or some-such to the suspend script.

>
> Some time ago I proposed (not related to stuckages) to disable lighiting and
> blank screen immediately after initation of suspend procedure. That would
> greatly improve user perception on device's responsiveness.
>

And you can do that using slbl. (slutils)
slbl 0

--
Justin Patrin


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