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On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes<waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into |
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>>> my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... |
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>>> |
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> [snip] |
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>>> |
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>>> What did I did? And how do I straighten it out? |
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>> Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using |
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>> when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... |
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> :) Actually it can! This is the whole point of using a swap partition for |
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> hibernating! In fact, this is the only configuration I used (one swap |
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> partition to suspend to) for years, until I got a laptop with 4G ram I |
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> thought a large swap partition was a bit redundant. Now I hibernate to a |
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> file. |
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> tuxonice can hibernate to 1 or more swap partitions. |
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>> even if |
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>> everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in |
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>> ram and what doesn't ... it's not a very sane thing to expect the |
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>> kernel+userspace tools there to do. If I recall from last time I |
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>> considered setting it up on my system, software hibernate needs an |
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>> otherwise unused swap partition that's just a little bigger than the |
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>> amount of physical ram in your system. |
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> actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using |
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> lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have |
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> enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. |
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> If you have too little swap, tuxonice will "abort gracefully" |
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> cya, |
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> -- |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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> "He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny |
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I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my |
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old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power outtages |
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interrupted. Now with my playing Combat Arms... and being limited to |
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Windows for that... I may well resort to setting up hibernating for my |
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system... finally. Great to know the details better now! (and my |
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apologies for the misinformation) |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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