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Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:03:01 +0800
From:   Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@gmail.com>
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     I create a 300GB swap space (just use up the remaining space in 
disk, no special reason). Is that a problem?

Jacky

On 2/25/2011 4:12 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:56, Jacky Lam<lamshuyin@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>     I try the hibernation feature with my MIPS box which has 128MB RAM. After
>> boot up, it remains to have 110MB something. Then I mount ramfs on a
>> directory, create a file 100MB from /dev/urandom and enter hibernation. The
>> process failed because of no memory. Then, I continue to cut the data file
>> size and not success until 20MB.
>>
>>     I want to make sure if it is an expected behavior or I am doing some
>> wrong?
> How large is your swapspace? Hibernation needs space on swap to store
> the contents
> of RAM (that cannot be loaded again from somewhere else).
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                  -- Linus Torvalds
>