On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:15:00AM +0100, Alessandro Grassi wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Sorry for the delay, I couldn't find enough contiguous spare time to
> run the tests in the last few days.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:30 PM, Mike Larkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1. on next boot> , type:
> >   mach mem =256M
> >
> > 2. then 'boot'
> >
> > 3. ZZZ
> 
> This would give me an out of memory error on dmesg, probably because
> my X11 setup takes more than 256MB of ram: the system was swapping
> when I typed ZZZ.
> I tried with 512.
> 
> >
> > 4. power up the machine again and do step 1 again that time
> >
> 
> > See if that makes any difference. It's telling the kernel to only
> > use 256MB RAM. You need to do the same thing in step 4 after restarting
> > or it will think the memory size changed and skip un-hibernate.
> 
> Well it resumed (with 512), I tried a few times to hibernate right
> after a clean boot and it worked.
> 
> During all the tests I made, it would always resume after the first
> hibernation following a complete reboot, but never after the second
> one.
> 
> On most of the successful resumes I see "pipe state doesn't match" on
> the console, though I don't remember ever seeing it when it resets.
> 
> This last time it didn't reset, but just resumed booting normally
> after throwing a few errors about the gpu.
> 
> I could take a photo of the console, that I'm attaching here.
> 
> The only crashes / instabilities I'm experiencing with OpenBSD on this
> laptop (e.g. a few times the system froze completely, couldn't even
> switch to tty, had to hard reset, no crash dump) feel like they're
> related to either a memory fault or a problem in the gpu drivers.
> 
> > [...]
> > Also, when you unhibernate your 4GB machine as above, does it sit for some
> > time with a black screen after loading the hibernated image or does it 
> > instantly
> > restart after reading it?
> 
> Sits for a few seconds in the black before I see X again, like 2 or 3.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Alessandro

There seems to be a lot of unrelated information here.

Can you summarize please:

* when does it work
* when does it not work

leave out anything about freezes or gpus or unrelated stuff.

-ml

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