Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 Version: 2.6.16-15 Severity: important Tags: patch
Hi, Page writeback together with swsusp has been broken in 2.6 for some time. After a suspend/resume the background page writeback is usually not working. This can be seen by looking at /proc/vmstat: nr_dirty or /proc/meminfo: Dirty. After a resume, the number of dirty pages are not decreasing towards 0, but staying quite high. For more info see: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114813031000002 A patch to correct this problem is included in upstream since 2.6.17-git9. Please include this patch in 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, as I think it's quite important due to the risk of data loss if anything bad happens. The patch can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/broken-out/pdflush-handle-resume-wakeups.patch Peter -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (40, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 depends on: ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool 0.0.12-8bpo1 Yet Another mkInitRD Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
