Ok, I did: Telcontar:~ # time echo disk > /sys/power/state real 24m59.993s user 0m0.014s sys 0m3.949s Telcontar:~ # 9.4> 2021-03-28T23:45:01.294828+02:00 Telcontar texpire - - - CER: running leafnode's texpire without ionice ... <0.6> 2021-03-28T23:56:24.272664+02:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [70697.016128] PM: hibernation: hibernation entry ... <9.4> 2021-03-29T00:14:21.258312+02:00 Telcontar texpire - - - CER: finished <1.6> 2021-03-29T00:14:21.287049+02:00 Telcontar run-crons 4014 - - leafnode: OK <9.6> 2021-03-29T00:14:21.316525+02:00 Telcontar run-crons.daily - - - Considering my daily cron jobs. <1.6> 2021-03-29T00:14:21.344056+02:00 Telcontar run-crons 4014 - - mio.daily: OK <1.6> 2021-03-29T00:14:21.376993+02:00 Telcontar run-crons 4014 - - storebackup: OK <1.6> 2021-03-29T00:14:21.688651+02:00 Telcontar run-crons 4014 - - suse-texlive: OK <0.6> 2021-03-29T00:21:24.260731+02:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [71780.466285] Filesystems sync: 1083.443 seconds <0.6> 2021-03-29T00:21:24.260822+02:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [71780.466288] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.002 seconds) done. ... <0.6> 2021-03-29T00:21:24.260965+02:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [71790.090320] OOM killer enabled. <0.6> 2021-03-29T00:21:24.265114+02:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [71790.090320] Restarting tasks ... done. <0.6> 2021-03-29T00:21:24.265118+02:00 Telcontar kernel - - - [71790.092322] PM: hibernation: hibernation exit As you can see the problem is the same. If I trigger hibernation while there is intense i/o on /dev/sdc9, hibernation stalls for 15..20 minutes. The disk activity takes precedence over the hibernation order. Tomorrow night I can test something else, please tell me what command to run.