Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into
my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to...
[snip]
What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?
Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using
when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that...
:) Actually it can! This is the whole point of using a swap partition
for hibernating! In fact, this is the only configuration I used (one
swap partition to suspend to) for years, until I got a laptop with 4G
ram I thought a large swap partition was a bit redundant. Now I
hibernate to a file.
tuxonice can hibernate to 1 or more swap partitions.
even if
everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in
ram and what doesn't ... it's not a very sane thing to expect the
kernel+userspace tools there to do. If I recall from last time I
considered setting it up on my system, software hibernate needs an
otherwise unused swap partition that's just a little bigger than the
amount of physical ram in your system.
actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed
using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should
have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM.
If you have too little swap, tuxonice will "abort gracefully"
cya,
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