Re: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

Pavel Machek wrote:
> > With swappiness at the default (60), software suspend frees all the memory it 
> > needs.  With swappiness at 0, software suspend basically doesn't free any 
> > memory, and the suspend gets aborted.
> >
> > Just thought I'd mention it.  Tried on 2.6.6...
>
>
> Uh, yes, right.
>
> That explains why some people see bad problems I could not
> reproduce. Thanks a lot.
>
> Stefan, we may want to do echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness in
> suspend script...
>
> 									Pavel

This applies to suspend2 for 2.6 as well. I recently changed to using the same routines to free memory.

Nigel


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