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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote |
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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... 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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> Which begs the next question... howsabout if I turn swap off as part |
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> of the hibernation process? I.e. in /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf |
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> include the lines... |
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> OnSuspend 00 swapoff /dev/sda6 |
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> OnResume 00 swapon /dev/sda6 |
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> or for that matter, what's the worst that can happen if I turn off |
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> swap alltogether, and run out of memory? Is it catastrophic, or merely |
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> inconvenient (additional programs refuse to launch)? |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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Well, aside from pointing toward the place where I was corrected... I |
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*can* answer what happens when you run out of ram... or ram+swap, |
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actually, if you have swap. It can either kill processes of its own |
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accord or simply deny new processes and forks of old processes. The |
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article below has a much better explanation... |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/104179/ |
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