[arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 05:30:34 EDT 2012


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Scott Lawrence <bytbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to hibernate, you need at least as much as you have RAM.

I'm not sure this is true. AFAIK, both swsusp and uswsusp try to
reduce the hibernation image as much as possible – I think
/sys/power/image_size defaults to 1 GB for swsusp. (A large part of
RAM is usually used by cache, which can be just freed before
hibernating.)

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Mantas Mikulėnas


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