Bug#346589: partman-auto: creates too large swap partitions

2008-05-25 Thread Avery Fay
I know this is an old bug report, but I think it has even more relevance today. My desktop machine has 4GB of memory and (IIRC) partman-auto tried to create a swap partition that was 10-12GB in size. That's wasting a ton of disk space. My real memory use (ignoring buffers/cache) rarely even hit

Bug#346589: partman-auto: creates too large swap partitions

2006-01-10 Thread Christian Perrier
> it may be wishlist to have the d-i grub-installer or lilo-installer > add the resume arg for the created swap to the boot args?? If we now support swsusp, yes, that would be a pretty good idea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Bug#346589: partman-auto: creates too large swap partitions

2006-01-10 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 09 janvier 2006 à 15:31 +0100, maximilian attems a écrit : > > > Please limit the swap size for the desktop scheme. A value like 256 MB > > > sounds reasonable. > > > > no that's not enough for suspend to disc there you need double of the >

Bug#346589: partman-auto: creates too large swap partitions

2006-01-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 09 janvier 2006 à 15:31 +0100, maximilian attems a écrit : > > Please limit the swap size for the desktop scheme. A value like 256 MB > > sounds reasonable. > > no that's not enough for suspend to disc there you need double of the > value. When our default kernel doesn't even support su

Bug#346589: partman-auto: creates too large swap partitions

2006-01-09 Thread maximilian attems
> Please limit the swap size for the desktop scheme. A value like 256 MB > sounds reasonable. no that's not enough for suspend to disc there you need double of the value. also it's nice to have more swap for bigger apps running on desktop boxes -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#346589: partman-auto: creates too large swap partitions

2006-01-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: partman-auto Version: 41 Severity: normal This report applies to the sarge version, but apparently this is still the case in the unstable version. When creating the swap partition, partman-auto chooses twice the total memory size. On a modern computer, this is incredibly huge. For a s