On 4 June 2015 at 16:27, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > [...] to be able to suspend to disk
> > [...] you need at least as much swap as RAM.
>
> AIUI in a situation like this,
> I'd need 256MiB (not 2GiB) of swap to suspend-to-disk.
>
>     $ free -m
>                  total       used       free     shared    buffers
>  cached
>     Mem:          1884       1178        706        269          0
> 966
>     -/+ buffers/cache:        211       1673
>
> ...but I guess the space saved is not worth the cost of being unable to
> suspend-to-disk when firefox is open.
>
>
Curious as to how you came to that conclusion?

I found a couple of references to /sys/power/image_size as being the factor
that deteremines how big the suspend-to-disk image will be.  According to
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/interface.txt it's set to
2/5 of availanble RAM by default, as is the case on my home media server
where it's set to 2/5 of 16Gb i.e. 6641303552 bytes.

You can change of course and apparently setting it to zero causes the
kernel to create the smallest image possible.



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Colin Fee
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