Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist

As far as I can tell, d-i calculates the size of the swap partition according 
to the curently installed amount of RAM.

Whenever the RAM is upgraded later on, the swap parition no longer fulfills its 
intended purpose, in cases when it would be needed to store hibernate images, 
since the parition was calculated to store a much smaller RAM image.

A more desirable method would be for d-i to use 'dmidecode' to probe the 
system's memory controller for the maximum amount of RAM that is supported and 
to calculate the swap partition size according to that.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1111, 'stable'), (1001, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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