From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:52:04 +0930
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Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>, Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 19:52, Rob Landley wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 15 October 2007 8:37:44 am Nick Piggin wrote:
>>     
>>> You really shouldn't configure
>>> so much [swap] unless you do want the kernel to actually use it all, right?
>>>       
>> Two words: "Software suspend".  I've actually been thinking of increasing
>> it on the next install...
>>     
>
> Kernel doesn't know that you want to use it for suspend but not
> regular swapping, unfortunately.
>   

Couldn't you mount swap before suspend and unmount it after resume?