Re: Memory needed for hibernation too much

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:56, Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@gmail.com> wrote:
>    I try the hibernation feature with my MIPS box which has 128MB RAM. After
> boot up, it remains to have 110MB something. Then I mount ramfs on a
> directory, create a file 100MB from /dev/urandom and enter hibernation. The
> process failed because of no memory. Then, I continue to cut the data file
> size and not success until 20MB.
>
>    I want to make sure if it is an expected behavior or I am doing some
> wrong?

How large is your swapspace? Hibernation needs space on swap to store
the contents
of RAM (that cannot be loaded again from somewhere else).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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