From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Suspend2 Merge: Supress various actions/errors while suspending [0/5]
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:32:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040919083244.GA19005@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095378659.5897.96.camel@laptop.cunninghams>
Hi!
> The following patches suppress various actions and errors while we're
> suspending.
>
> Patch 1 disables the OOM killer and patch 3 complaining when no memory
> is available for an allocation. These are needed because swsusp and
> suspend2 both reduce the size of an image by allocating all the memory
> they can get, thus inciting the vm to free/swap out memory. This in turn
> can lead to processes being OOM killed and/or errors in the logs about
> not being able to allocate pages.
swsusp1 has some less ugly solution that is able to free memory but
not provoke OOM killer. I guess you should use it and drop this patch.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-19 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-16 23:50 [PATCH] Suspend2 Merge: Supress various actions/errors while suspending [0/5] Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-17 0:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-17 0:03 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-17 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-17 0:23 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-19 8:32 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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