Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 2010 19:46:21 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api. |
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On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:43:33AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * 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?
Freezer cgroups would work better, but it doesn't really change the point - if that application has an open network socket, how do you know to resume that application when a packet comes in?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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