Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932357AbXJPGWV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:22:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754626AbXJPGWJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:22:09 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:33183 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759206AbXJPGWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:22:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4714588C.8010407@davidnewall.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:52:04 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Rob Landley , Theodore Tso , James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?) References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710152337.45252.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200710150452.30939.rob@landley.net> <200710160108.38222.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200710160108.38222.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 22 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? - 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/