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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:43:33 -0700
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* Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> [100507 11:23]:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:01:52AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> [100507 10:46]:
> > > Effective power management in the face of real-world applications is a 
> > > reasonable usecase.
> > 
> > Sure there's no easy solution to misbehaving apps.
> 
> That's the point of the suspend blockers.

To me it sounds like suspending the whole system to deal with
some misbehaving apps is an overkill. Sounds like kill -STOP
the misbehaving apps should do the trick?

Tony