Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:49:01 +0200 | From | Marc Giger <> | Subject | Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP |
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Good Morning All:-)
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:37:41 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
> >> > I don't believer I've ever seen things get OOM killed. Instead, page > >> > cache is discarded until things do fit. > >> > >> What happens if user allocated pages are filling up all the space, > >> not page cache? Trust me, it happens ;-) > >
Yes, it happens...:-)
> > Yep, just because I haven't seen it, doesn't mean a thing. :>. In that
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> The more I think about this, the more it seems so much simpler to just > require a reserved swap area the size of your RAM to suspend into. Would > make the code so much simpler ... forget the option bit I suggested earlier > ;-)
I think most people doesn't interest wheter the code is simple or not...it must work!
What I like to see is that we can define in /etc/fstab an entry for a separate suspend partition or suspend file.
eg. for a partition: /dev/sda4 none swsusp swsp 0 0
or for a file: /tmp/swsusp none swsusp swsp 0 0
Is it possible? It's also just an idea...
Marc
Also I wouldn't like it, if my programs get OOM-killed just because swap and memory are full! The reasons because I use standby and hybernation are:
1. I hate booting...(If I like booting I would use windows;-)) 2. I want to continue working on the last work without opening the programs again 3. I can go home faster:-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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