On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:50 +0100 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-01-25 21:48 +0100, Celejar wrote: > > > You're right; I see now that 'free' reports only 317376 free. This is > > a laptop, and I do hibernate it a couple of times a day, so I suppose > > that the cache(s) are thrown away to use the RAM for hibernation (and > > to avoid pointlessly saving cached disk data in RAM back to disk), and > > then when the system is restored, the RAM becomes free again until it's > > once again used for cache or application storage? > > Yes, that's it (compare the output of "free" before and after > hibernating to convince yourself). If you don't want to get your cache > blown away, use suspend (to RAM) rather than hibernation. I'd love to (sometimes), but I've never been able to get it to work on this machine, even after a fair bit of futzing with s2ram options. [FTR, it's an Acer Aspire 3690.] Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110125164415.7cf07189.cele...@gmail.com
