ureadahead patch

[Tim Gardner]

On 07/08/2010 09:01 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On 07/09/2010 10:18 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> 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
>> ?
>>
>
> Cool, I just downloaded and will try it on our testing machine.
>
> btw, how can I found the i386 link you posted in your launchpad ppa page?
>
> -Bryan

Go to anyone's PPA page (like 
http://launchpad.net/~timg-tpi/+archive/ppa) and click on 'View Package 
Details', then click on the package of interest.

rtg

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com