Re: Freezing on "freeing memory"

Hi,

> Sometimes, when ToI decides the compressed image won't fit into the
> swap, it displays "Trying to free NNNN Mb of memory" and seems to
> hang. After a minute it may lower the amount so it is not
> completely frozen but that doesn't help. And if I press Esc, it
> displays "aborting" but doesn't really abort (I waited about 10
> minutes once). It definitely worked some years ago, I'm not sure
> about more recent times when I had a large swap, and when I shrank
> it several months ago I started to get this incorrect behavior. I
> don't remember if all recent attempts to free memory fail or only
> some of them though.

I have observed the same problem in Ubuntu 12.10 which uses the ToI
patch in git branch tuxonice-3.5. No problems with previous Ubuntu
versions (kernel 3.2.0 or lower). Since you also observe this, it
looks like that the problem is in ToI and not in Ubuntu?

Martin