Hibernate: not enough swap space

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 02/22/2012 01:36:32 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> 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.)
> --
> > 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.

Hmmmm ... this doesn't look good ....

root at puget[2]->cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size	Used	
Priority
root at puget[3]

Do you recall the nature of the "fiddling" ?