This screenshot is another VM install I just started - I allocated
12GB RAM and 100GB disk - note swap is still set at 1GB -

thanks  :)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 9:56 AM allan <wizard10...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 9:40 AM Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> > Testing like this is perfectly fine :-)
> >
> > However:
> > 20G is a rather small disk these days for a workstation with a graphical
> > deskop.
> > For example, when I test it with a 35G harddrive, I get 2G of swap 
> > partition.
> >
> > How much RAM has your machine?
>
> I did it on QEMU/KVM and allocated 8GB.  Still, if default hibernation
> image is up to 2/5 of installed RAM a 1GB swap partition could be
> insufficient.
>
> I think the algorithm that allocates swap space might need a look.  I
> can't prove it because the installation no longer exists but I saw
> that same 1GB swap partition about three months ago when installing to
> a 240GB external drive on a machine with 8GB RAM.

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