From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261404AbTDXGmj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:42:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261706AbTDXGmj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:42:39 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:21466 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261404AbTDXGmi (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:42:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:54:01 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: David Ford Cc: Pavel Machek , "Grover, Andrew" , "Martin J. Bligh" , Nigel Cunningham , Marc Giger , Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP Message-ID: <20030424065401.GA1762@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030424000344.GC32577@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3EA75EDD.20605@blue-labs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3EA75EDD.20605@blue-labs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 April 2003 23:49:49 -0400, David Ford wrote: > > I honestly don't see OOMing as an acceptable practice. If I wanted to > kill a bunch of stuff just to suspend, I would have simply shut the > system down. That isn't my intent or desire. I want to suspend the > system just as it is without OOMing a bunch of programs. Seconded. Joe user would see the OOM either way, sooner with a seperate suspend partition, which would be missing as swap. But he would be seeing it at the moment he caused it. With suspend to swap, the OOM happens during suspend, every time. So who is to blame? Jörn -- The cost of changing business rules is much more expensive for software than for a secretaty. -- unknown