On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Amit Kulkarni <amitk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. Hibernate writes to swap (at the end of your swap). If you have too small >> a swap, it won't work, or if there are swap pages in use at the end of your >> swap that overlap with what we want. You need at least "size of mem + 64MB" >> of swap at the end of swap, free, at the time of hibernate. ... > pardon my newbie question but does this ^^^ above paragraph mean i > might need to create a new swap like this? assume a mem of 8 GB. (i > will be re-partitioning within a few months to get a bigger > /usr/local, /usr, and /var) > > new swap = 8GB (for real swap) + 8GB + 64MB (for hibernate purpose)
If you have 8GB of swap in active use, then yes, that would be required. Of course, if you have 8GB of swap in active use, then your machine is buried in work and why are you hibernating then?!!??! But, whatever, it's your machine and disks are huge today; if you want to allocate 16+GB to swap, it's your disk to do so. > windows (they do have one of the best hibernate around) creates a > separate pagefile (swap) and a hibernate file. any thoughts of having > a /var/hibernate or something along those lines? hahahhahahhahahahahahh Philip Guenther
