Re: Strange vmstat values

Oleksandr Natalenko <[email protected]> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:41:25 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.swsusp.devel
Message-ID <1779619.vxLLNYADC4@spock>
Meh, sorry for posting crap. Observe that with -ck patchset, not TOI :/.

On Monday 13 May 2013 22:31:16 Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> 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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