Re: swsusp "not enough swap space" 2.6.5-mm6.

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

 On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:27 -0700, Mark Gross wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08:32, Mark Gross wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 16:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > > I'm sorry for not having more information, but the failing computer is
> > > > my home laptop (I'll get more details after work or I'll bring it in
> > > > tomorrow for more details).
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, this thing does software suspend using the 2.6.2-mm1 kernel,
> > > > and last night I was updating it to 2.6.5-mm6, and I started getting
> > > > these not enough disk space errors.
> > > >
> > > > I found your bug fix patch,
> > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107806008626357&w=2
> > > >  and checked that it is included in the 2.6.5-mm6 kernel I'm using.
> > > >
> > > > Without more information does this problem ring any bells?
> > > >
> > > > Can you recommend a "good" kernel version that does reliable swsusp?
> > >
> > > Get 2.6.6, and set swappiness to 100.
> > >
> > > 								Pavel
> >
> > 2.6.6 still fails, just like the failure reported by the thread independent
> > of swappiness:
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107806010900002&r=1&w=2
> >
> > However; as hinted in the thread turning off premption does seem to fix the
> > problem.
> >
> 
> Spoke too soon.  My build tree that had the success was 2.6.6-mm6, so I 
> re-built a clean 2.6.6 from tarball using the .config from the successful 
> run, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.  It fails.  2.6.6-mm5 works, but only if 
> CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.
> 
> I have to get to my day job now, but whats up with the flakieness of the 
> swsusp?  Shouldn't it be mostly working by now?

It's working flawlessly for me with 2.6.7-rc3-mm1. I also applied the
following patches (who knows)...