From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kwla5-0006FJ-3L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:38:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F33CE02AC; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501C2E02AC for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so1176345wah.2 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:37:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=UBXZvEASJyVIvdVAKc/jFCCp9zCYSd4ER0nAlXSinTo=; b=a/R1EvhX2p+wETuVmh/LMXkSMHb3ULm/yHQ9clJeN2celz5C/9vePDns5V9BQrjq2y tc1cTp6vyhUQjG9Ba4nFEfwhyf50QKIHMP6rhNlVtroY2654ECfeRm7y4xThVi535+KS MUbatmWAYS0RupuYUJG5JIMbFSPP2p4HMIK8M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=s+Di0q56y7q6lwjeJVpwA/rvyUhNL/oNZImRneB2l/s1DbLwbBdQcDGC0f9N93JKc9 lUl2f9odP1aGrL2H2GfmMxQ8UWjK1CNnVHyZnqcUOrdod76DAIHSdnfgX4nJdGEK+0pC ZWEw8F84X/ZsfovddeAqGratQD4lMVOivzt4Q= Received: by 10.114.183.1 with SMTP id g1mr11804490waf.131.1225665478546; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:37:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.145.19 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:37:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:37:58 -0500 From: "Joshua Murphy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help In-Reply-To: <490BE6B3.4040300@netspace.net.au> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081031035456.GA4974@waltdnes.org> <490BE6B3.4040300@netspace.net.au> X-Archives-Salt: 03fbc866-da20-48eb-8bae-e374eb78bf23 X-Archives-Hash: 346f9f080658d1e34db39a0f5801015a On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes >> wrote: >>> >>> I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into >>> my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... >>> > [snip] >>> >>> What did I did? And how do I straighten it out? >> >> Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using >> when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... > > :) Actually it can! This is the whole point of using a swap partition for > hibernating! In fact, this is the only configuration I used (one swap > partition to suspend to) for years, until I got a laptop with 4G ram I > thought a large swap partition was a bit redundant. Now I hibernate to a > file. > > tuxonice can hibernate to 1 or more swap partitions. > >> even if >> everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in >> ram and what doesn't ... it's not a very sane thing to expect the >> kernel+userspace tools there to do. If I recall from last time I >> considered setting it up on my system, software hibernate needs an >> otherwise unused swap partition that's just a little bigger than the >> amount of physical ram in your system. > > actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using > lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have > enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. > > If you have too little swap, tuxonice will "abort gracefully" > > cya, > -- > Iain Buchanan > > "He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny > > I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power outtages interrupted. Now with my playing Combat Arms... and being limited to Windows for that... I may well resort to setting up hibernating for my system... finally. Great to know the details better now! (and my apologies for the misinformation) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy