So, what you say is if you don't have, you can't hibernate? 2016-02-04 15:49 GMT-03:00 Bennett Piater <benn...@piater.name>:
> > I am curious: why and how? IIUC, neither suspend nor hibernate use > > swap. Or have I misunderstood? > > > > Hibernate, in particular, saves everything to disk so RAM should not be > > an issue. I could see, maybe, how suspend may need some swap, mind you, > > as it does use RAM but very little over and above what is currently > > being used by the running programs? > > You misunderstood something. > > Hibernate does need swap, because hibernate means that *the entire > content of your RAM is saved in the swap* and reloaded from there when > power resumes. > > Suspend OTOH does not need swap, because the state is kept in RAM. > That's why suspend needs a little bit of power: RAM needs powe, or it > will loose it's memory. > > Cheers, > Bennett > > -- > GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808 > >
