On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 05:56:40PM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 09:32:05AM GMT, Mike Larkin wrote:
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> Thanks for your fast reply!
>
> >> On my Framework laptop, I used to be able to `ZZZ`, but that has now not
> >> worked for several weeks. I couldn't work out why at first, because the
> >> battery ran out, but this time I was looking for it. The machine seemed
> >> to `ZZZ` but after a while failed, leaving this in dmesg:
> >>
> >> failed to allocate hibernate memory
> >>
> >> Suspend (`zzz`) continues to work well. There is about 20GiB of memory
> >> free, so I'm unsure what can't be allocated. dmesg below.
> > Happens all the time or just after running for a while?
> >
> > We need to be able to allocate a bunch of contiguous memory, so if you
> > have free memory but its fragmented, we may not be able to allocate what
> > we need and then show that error.
> >
> > Eg, can you reliably ZZZ on this machine right after boot reliably?
>
> Yes, I seem to be able to ZZZ after boot (tried three times). So I guess
> it's fragmentation, but I must admit I thought I had bucket-loads (60%) of
> spare RAM, and wasn't getting close to using it all! Next time it fails, I
> guess it's worth me killing off a couple of big processes (e.g. browsers)
> to see if that helps matters along?
>
>
> Laurie
>

I'll try to bake something up for you to text next week.

-ml

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