Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:49:33 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP |
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>> OK ... but at least having the *option* to have a separate reserved >> area would be nice, no? For most people, RAM is just a tiny amount >> of their disk space ... and damn, does it make the code simpler ;-) > > 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...]
OK, fair enough. I like the "activate the spare swap blob" plan. Seems like the best of both worlds ... people can use files or partitions, and all the code is already there.
M.
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