iowait using all my CPU after suspend

William John Murray W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk
Tue Feb 5 10:56:46 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:59 +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> My laptop suspends/resumes using fglrx. Good.
>    But on resume it is often incredibly unresponsive. 
> 
> The 'system monitor' applet shows CPU 100% busy, nearly all in 'IO
> wait' 
>   mpstat claims iowait is 7%, idle 59%. 
> 
> I don't know what I am doing, but I google-guess:
>  ps -eo pid,tid,class,rtprio,ni,pri,psr,pcpu,stat,wchan:14,comm | grep D
> 
> PID   TID CLS RTPRIO  NI PRI PSR %CPU STAT WCHAN          COMMAND
>   238   238 TS       -   0  19   0  0.0 D    congestion_wai pdflush
>   239   239 TS       -  -5  24   0  0.0 D<   get_request_wa kswapd0
>   497   497 TS       -  -5  24   0  0.0 D<   get_request_wa kjournald
>   760   760 TS       -   0  19   0  0.0 D+   sync_buffer    bash
>   761   761 TS       -   0  19   0  0.0 D    sync_page      sh
>  2641  2641 TS       -   0  19   0  5.0 Ds+  sync_page      X
>  3286  3286 TS       -   7  12   0  0.1 DNl  sync_page      beagled
>  3376  3376 TS       -   0  19   0  0.0 Dl   sync_page
> pam-panel-icon
>  4450  4450 TS       -   0  19   0  6.5 Dl   sync_page      firefox-bin
> 
> 
>   Anyone know how I should proceed?
>          
>                    Thank you,
>                         Bill
>    

Hm.. I learnt something. If I suspend with a click on the battery icon
it resumes. But if I close the lid it doesn't. What is the difference?
  Bill

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Dr William Murray       w.j.murray at rl.ac.uk      (44)-1235-446256
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