Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 15. jan. 2022 kl. 15:52 skrev Mikolaj Kucharski <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > I see. What would be recommented equation for a swap size, to have
> > working hibernation, given an X bytes of physical memory?
> 
> For hibernation to work you need swap at least equal to the size of the 
> machine’s physical memory if I remember correctly.

That is incorrect.  The payload is compressed RLE of in-use memory,
after discarding cached memory.  It is not a 1:1 copy of physical
memory.  Upon resume, you see the number.  It tends to be way less than
1/4 of memory, but it is hard to say.

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