Re: Freezing on "freeing memory"

I've this problem on my computers with 2, 3 and 4GB RAM and 32 and 64bit
kernels.


Milan


On 05.12.2012 22:43, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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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