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From: 胡洪兵 <huhb@lemote.com>
To: Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Memory needed for hibernation too much
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:55:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6B0080.1010401@lemote.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6AF445.6020401@gmail.com>

于 11/02/28 9:03, Jacky Lam 写道:
> I create a 300GB swap space (just use up the remaining space in disk, no
> special reason). Is that a problem?
>

You could try to change the memory model to "Sparese Memory".

Kernel type --->
  Memory model (Sparse Memory)  --->

> 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
>>
>
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-25  3:56 Memory needed for hibernation too much Jacky Lam
2011-02-25  8:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-02-28  1:03   ` Jacky Lam
2011-02-28  1:55     ` 胡洪兵 [this message]
2011-02-28  3:04       ` Jacky Lam
2011-02-28  3:40         ` 胡洪兵
2011-02-28  8:04     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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