Jeff Waugh wrote: > No, the 2*RAM thing comes from the distant past, back when the 2.2 and 2.4 > VMs were lame. You don't need 2*RAM for laptop hibernate -- all the laptop > needs is system (and sometimes video) memory written to disk, and with the > current hibernate code, it's gzipped on the way in. (Your disk is slower > than your CPU, so compressing to disk makes a *lot* of sense.) So, systems > that still do 2*RAM by default do not do it for this reason (consider also > that RHEL, not exactly primarily used with laptops, still leads the charge > for 2*RAM).
That's a bit unfair, FC6's installer suggested swap = RAM when I installed it on a Intel Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM. (I used FC6 since it 'just works' in the Mac Mini's EFI environment). I doubled it manually simply because I remembered how painful the 2.2-->2.4 move was when the swap requirement became double the amount of RAM. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
