On 22/02/2008, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? > > > > Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my > > RAM? I have 2 GB of RAM, and when I installed Debian, I figured I > > would hardly ever need that much, so I made swap 1.4 GB. > > IIRC the ram image is compressed using lzw compression. Therefore it > actually depends upon how well things compress. If you have good > compression then it would fit. But if not then it wouldn't. But it > is data dependent upon what is in ram at the moment. Using lzw is not > really intended to reduce the amount of disk needed but is done as a > way to speed up the hibernate process. Writing disk is slow and if > that can be reduced then hibernation is faster. But it might work to > your advantage anyway.
Is it me or you also need big enough /tmp. I installed lenny 64 with /tmp of 512mb with ram of 2gb suspend/hibernate would not work. On a reinstall (for some other reason) I made /tmp 2.5gb now both work. Puzzled... -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
