> thank you for the clear and convincing problem description.
>
> It's becoming increasingly clear that we need to do something with
> ext3 and laptops.
>
> I don't understand what can be causing the behaviour which you
> report. Presumably, some application is generating disk writes,
> and kjournald is thus performing disk IO every five seconds.
> But I don't know why this should prevent the machine from suspending,
> nor why it's different with other filesystems.
Disk writes should not prevent suspend... unless he has buggy apm bios.
But I can not imagine bug doing _that_...
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