On Wed, 23 April 2003 23:49:49 -0400, David Ford wrote:
>
> I honestly don't see OOMing as an acceptable practice. If I wanted to
> kill a bunch of stuff just to suspend, I would have simply shut the
> system down. That isn't my intent or desire. I want to suspend the
> system just as it is without OOMing a bunch of programs.
Seconded.
Joe user would see the OOM either way, sooner with a seperate suspend
partition, which would be missing as swap. But he would be seeing it
at the moment he caused it. With suspend to swap, the OOM happens
during suspend, every time. So who is to blame?
Jörn
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