Re: Strange vmstat values

Oleksandr Natalenko <[email protected]> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:31:16 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.swsusp.devel
Message-ID <15379732.62TexI81q1@spock>
Possibly, it's not TOI issue. Get that too with TOI disabled via

echo 0 >/sys/power/tuxonice/replace_swsusp.

On Monday 13 May 2013 22:21:04 Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> After hibernating-resuming cycle I get strange vmstat output:
> 
> ===
> [pf@spock]:[~][0]% vmstat
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
> ----cpu---- r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in  
> cs us sy id wa 4294967295  0      0 12262312  51716 1016868    0    0    23
>    25  269  296 8  1 91  0
> ===
> 
> As you see 4294967295 is abnormal. Same report came from another user:
> 
> ===
> There is a problem though, now after hibernate-resume vmstat often displays
> 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) as the first value (The number of runnable
> processes), in addition to normal values like 0, 1, etc.. So the kernel
> gives wrong process statistics. (I couldn't catch this bogus value in
> /proc/stat where it supposedly comes from, though. Probably because each
> time I looked at the file the process that I used for this was counted as
> runnable by the kernel, thus resetting the number of runnable processes to
> zero.)
> 
> I definitely don't observe this behaviour before hibernation. And I don't
> remember having this issue at the times of older kernels (3.5? 3.2?) when
> hibernation was usable to me.
> ===
> 
> How can I help to get that fixed?

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