From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>,
Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:55:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1591030000.1051142110@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030423235820.GB32577@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> Well, but if all the swaps gets used, you go OOM and randomly kill
> processes. That means that machines have way more swap than they need.
>
> If you really want to "solve" it reliably, you can always
>
> swapon /dev/hdfoo666
>
> where hdfoo666 is as big as ram, just before starting swsusp. We could
> even make swapon part of swsusp where its locked to kill races.
>
> But I believe its not needed. Problem just is not there in practise.
OK, well suppose RAM is full, and swap is almost full (less than used
RAM left). System is still running fine, no OOM. But suspend can't work,
AFAICS.
Saving a separate area to save RAM into seems like the only deterministic
method to me.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-23 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 13:51 Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP Pavel Machek
2003-04-23 14:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-23 14:47 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-23 15:56 ` gigerstyle
2003-04-23 19:41 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-23 20:36 ` Marc Giger
2003-04-23 22:25 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-23 23:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 23:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-23 23:55 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-04-24 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 0:17 ` CaT
2003-04-24 0:16 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-24 0:26 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-24 0:31 ` CaT
2003-04-24 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 0:54 ` CaT
2003-04-24 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 8:48 ` John Bradford
2003-04-24 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 9:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 9:25 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 9:35 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 11:13 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-24 11:36 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 14:26 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 16:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-24 20:48 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 21:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-25 1:09 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-25 12:59 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-25 16:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-25 18:28 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-25 19:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-25 19:58 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-27 18:59 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 11:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-25 1:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 1:19 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-25 1:31 ` Hua Zhong
2003-04-25 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 4:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-25 4:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-24 0:25 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 9:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 9:14 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 9:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-24 9:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 15:22 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-24 8:00 ` Marc Giger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-23 23:47 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-24 0:03 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-23 23:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 0:25 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 0:37 ` CaT
2003-04-24 0:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 9:16 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 0:02 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-24 0:23 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 0:45 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 3:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-24 4:37 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-24 7:49 ` Marc Giger
2003-04-24 9:27 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-24 3:49 ` David Ford
2003-04-24 6:54 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-24 7:01 ` Elladan
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