Problem with hibernation

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 00:05 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > My laptop has ceased hibernating.
> > When I click on f=>Leave=>Hibernate
> > the sleep-moon starts flashing
> > and the small hyphen-like symbol on the top left comes on as usual,
> > but as far as I can see nothing is written to disk.
> 
> I solved my problem by adding RAM - 
> there was 512MB, and I added 1GB.
> After this, to my surprise, hibernation worked again.
> So it seems the cause was a shortage of memory.
> I'm rather surprised, as I have (and had) 2GB swap space.
> 
That is certainly surprising since hibernation saves the state of the
system to a disk file. Now if it was suspend it would make sense that
adding RAM would be helpful.

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>