ureadahead patch

[Tim Gardner]

On 07/08/2010 08:05 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On 07/09/2010 09:49 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 07/08/2010 07:15 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>>> Tim,
>>>
>>> This patch is quite on time for my hibernation bug in a customer's
>>> project.
>>>
>>> The root cause is ureadahead will set the tracing buffer size to
>>> 128MB, then do
>>> profiling. But after that ureadahead never restores the old tracing
>>> buffer size
>>> back. Due to the big chunk of memory occupied by ureadahead,
>>> hibernation will
>>> fail when it preallocate memory to build hibernation image in memory.
>>>
>>> We tried to restore back the tracing buffer size to workaround this
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> So I just wanna say, please push this patch to ureadahead repo and
>>> upload for
>>> us. I will test this patch on the machine.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> -Bryan
>>>
>>
>> Bryan,
>>
>> I've uploaded a package to http://ppa.launchpad.net/timg-tpi/ppa/ubuntu.
>> I tested using 'sudo ureadahead --force-trace'. It appears to do the
>> right thing.
>>
>
> Awesome. I noticed it is built for amd64 arch, shall we get a i386 version? The
> customer's machine is running i386 generice-pae kernel with 4G RAM.
>
> Thanks,

https://edge.launchpad.net/~timg-tpi/+archive/ppa/+files/ureadahead_0.100.0-4.2~lucid1_i386.deb 
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com