Hi, I have been observing that laptop is too slow when it resumes from suspend (T61p with 2GB ram), it takes more than 10 minutes before the system starts responding normally. There will be continuous read from the hard disk during this time. I noticed the following in my top (3 outputs taken at different times) after 5 mins-------------------------------- Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 56.7%id, 32.2%wa, 0.1%hi, 7.9%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2075132k total, 299748k used, 1775384k free, 264k buffers Swap: 2097140k total, 567580k used, 1529560k free, 26856k cached after 10 mins-------------------------------- Cpu(s): 1.3%us, 2.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 64.8%id, 26.5%wa, 0.1%hi, 4.8%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2075132k total, 256348k used, 1818784k free, 300k buffers Swap: 2097140k total, 581164k used, 1515976k free, 28740k cached after 12 mins-------------------------------- top - 19:29:29 up 17:53, 6 users, load average: 4.63, 5.56, 5.86 Tasks: 163 total, 1 running, 160 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 0.9%us, 1.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 57.8%id, 36.6%wa, 0.1%hi, 3.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2075132k total, 187348k used, 1887784k free, 300k buffers Swap: 2097140k total, 609680k used, 1487460k free, 18480k cached -------------------------------- It shows that I/O is very high during this period. Though I have 2GB memory, only 200-300MB is used where as 550-600MB swap is used. Why is it this way? Also, only one task is running out of 163 total tasks in the system. The kernel I have is 2.6.22.9-0.4-default #1 SMP Here is another output that I took 15 minutes after resuming. Again, RES is very low for all processes and it looks like VM is still thinking that the main memory is not available. A VM bug? I can still see my harddisk grinding continuously. top - 23:34:43 up 21:58, 6 users, load average: 3.16, 3.37, 4.73 Tasks: 165 total, 1 running, 162 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 1.4%us, 2.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 45.2%id, 44.2%wa, 0.3%hi, 6.5%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2075132k total, 467476k used, 1607656k free, 600k buffers Swap: 2097140k total, 680644k used, 1416496k free, 128576k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3081 root 15 0 564m 74m 14m S 2 3.7 43:26.70 X 4272 jjaimon 15 0 260m 68m 13m S 0 3.4 8:02.26 thunderbird-bin 20011 root 5 -10 591m 52m 50m S 3 2.6 22:47.90 vmware-vmx 4607 jjaimon 15 0 330m 42m 7584 S 2 2.1 19:34.48 firefox-bin 3967 jjaimon 15 0 114m 18m 2632 S 3 0.9 23:13.73 main-menu Load average is shown high. But, all that I have is 3-4 regular applications (firefox, gnome-terminal and thunderbird) and one VMWare instance. Regards, --jaimon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org