Re: Memory needed for hibernation too much

[Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@gmail.com>]

On 2/28/2011 9:55 AM, 胡洪兵 wrote:
> 于 11/02/28 9:03, Jacky Lam 写道:
> > I create a 300GB swap space (just use up the remaining space in disk, no
> > special reason). Is that a problem?
> You could try to change the memory model to "Sparese Memory".
>
> Kernel type --->
>  Memory model (Sparse Memory)  --->
    My system memory only has 1 node of continuous memory. Any reason 
for that?
Jacky

> > Jacky
> >
> > On 2/25/2011 4:12 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> > > geert@linux-m68k.org
> > >
> > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a
> > > hacker. But
> > > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something
> > > like that.
> > > -- Linus Torvalds