Am 04.09.2012 22:09, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:53:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> If you are using hibernate/suspend thingys then that is different. >> Isn't that when it has to be at least as much swap as you have ram? > > Not necessarily because the data is compressed before saving, but you > can't know how much it is going to compress, so only if your RAM is all > used up with incompressible data (an unlikely scenario) will you need > that much. >
I think the capability of compressing hibernate images is still limited to sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources. > Not that hibernating a system with 16GB is ever going to be fast enough > to be worth bothering with. As Alan has discovered, it can take longer > than a cold boot. > Yes but (at least with tuxonice) you don't need to repopulate your in-memory disk cache which might again save you time. However, I find it easier to just suspend. In my experience it is more stable and many modern laptops can easily survive a week in suspension. Regards, Florian Philipp
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