Re: 2.6.19-rc5: grub is much slower resuming from suspend-to-disk than in 2.6.18

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Nov 12 2006 - 08:38:11 EST


On Sunday, 12 November 2006 13:46, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Sunday 12 November 2006 15:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sunday, 12 November 2006 12:36, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > This is rather funny; in 2.6.19-rc5 grub is *really* slow loading kernel
> > > when I switch on the system after suspend to disk. Actually, after kernel
> > > has been loaded, the whole resuming (up to the point I have usable
> > > desktop again) takes about three time less than the process of loading
> > > kernel + initrd. During loading disk LED is constantly lit. This almost
> > > looks like kernel leaves HDD in some strange state, although I always
> > > assumed HDD/IDE is completely reinitialized in this case.
> >
> > Can you please see what's in the /sys/power/disk file?
> >
>
> {pts/0}% cat /sys/power/disk
> shutdown

Can you please write "platform" to this file before the suspend and see if
anything changes?

Rafael


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