Re: Freezing on "freeing memory"

I've been having this problem on computer with a low amount of RAM (2GB or
less). On 4GB+ I haven't come across it, even when when over 90% of the
memory is in use and 20% of the swap is in use too. In all cases with a
64bit kernel.


On 8 November 2012 11:03, Milan Oravec <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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