On 12/04/2013 05:07 AM, Tim wrote:
If hibernating is going to be a memory dump to hard drive, then the
hard
drive space (it's using the swap file/partition) *needs* to be big
enough. Doing something that *might* work, doesn't fit the definition
of doing what *needs* to be done, to make it work.
Compression isn't always possible. Attempting to rely on something that
might work is pretty much guaranteed to bite you on the bum at the time
you needed it to work.
Then, you must also consider that some swap space could be already used
when you hibernate.
You need to have enough _free_ swap space.
(It happened to me in the past to have to close some applications to fit
the hibernation image into the available swap space, it's annoying,...)
BTW, I'm not sure about compression; I remember a time when tuxonice
supported compression (and saved cache), while the mainline hibernation
did not have compression (and discarded cache).
Maybe things have changed.
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