Re: Freezing on "freeing memory"

I have reported this a while ago. Problem is somewhere between 3.2 and
3.3 or newer.


Milan

On 08.11.2012 11:59, Martin Schläffer wrote:
> 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
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