Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP

From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>,
	Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:37:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030424003758.GD678@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424002551.GA2980@elf.ucw.cz>

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:25:52AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> If it is an *option*, it does not make code simpler.
> 
> And OOM-killing during suspend is just what you want. It makes suspend
> deterministic but it might kill someone. [Well, your solution would
> kill him sooner than that...]

I wouldn't say it's what you want. I really rather not have open office
(for eg) killed just because while I could have had the space to suspend
fully I wasn't able. And if it's my only reason for using the laptop at
the time then it just outright dieing might be just as useful.

Have the OOM killing if you want but being able to tack on an extra swap
partition when suspending would be most useful, either out of the kernel
or out of userspace, whichever would be the most reliable.

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