Hibernate: not enough swap space

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB memory.
>> When I attempt to hibernate from the Session Menu I get a popup with
>> the message:
>>
>> 10      484GB   493GB   9437MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
>>
>> As you can see, I've allocated 9GB for swap.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Not willing to do the math at the moment, but is it a rounding issue?
> Are memory stick gigabytes the same as disk gigabytes?  Is your swap
> space sufficiently large enough to avoid the difference?  (I recall
> reading it needed to be at least as large as your RAM, but not how much
> more would be a good idea.)
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> Is your swap space active and is the kernel
> set to use it?

`cat /proc/swaps` to check this.  IIRC one of my boxes didn't enable
swap till I fiddled with it a bit a few months ago (albeit w/F15).
Maybe the same thing happened to you.

-T.C.