On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > "He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny > >
I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power outtages interrupted. Now with my playing Combat Arms... and being limited to Windows for that... I may well resort to setting up hibernating for my system... finally. Great to know the details better now! (and my apologies for the misinformation) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
