Yes, swap needs to be the same or slightly larger than RAM for suspend-to-disk (hibernation). Sometimes 2 x RAM is recommended if swap is used a lot. Some resources if you want to learn a bit more about swap:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq http://linux.die.net/man/1/sar http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8208-all-about-linux-swap-space Here is a howto for suspending to a swap file instead of a partition (last half of post): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042946 if you don't feel like fooling with your partition sizes. Caveat: I've not followed these instructions. Dave On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Vijay Salian <salia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Lomov, > > The reason could be, there is no enough swap space alloted while > partitioning during Installation of Ubuntu. > > I think the SWAP partition should have same space as that of RAM. > > Please let me know your opinion o this. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:30 PM, > <laptop-testing-team-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: >> >> Send laptop-testing-team mailing list submissions to >> laptop-testing-team@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> laptop-testing-team-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> laptop-testing-team-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of laptop-testing-team digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. TP R50e, ubuntu 9.10: not awake from RAM (Andrei Lomov) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:27:43 +0600 >> From: Andrei Lomov <lo...@math.nsc.ru> >> Subject: TP R50e, ubuntu 9.10: not awake from RAM >> To: laptop-testing-team@lists.ubuntu.com >> Message-ID: <hkcbmi$cb...@ger.gmane.org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >> My ThinkPad R50e with Ubuntu 9.10 can't awake from hibernate to RAM ... >> No response to any key exept poweroff ... >> >> It has 700 Mb RAM -- may be it is not enough to complete the operation? >> >> Many thanks for any advice >> >> -- >> andreas >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> -- >> laptop-testing-team mailing list >> laptop-testing-team@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team >> >> >> End of laptop-testing-team Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1 >> ************************************************** > > > -- > laptop-testing-team mailing list > laptop-testing-team@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team > >
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