https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190#c1 --- Comment #1 from Joschi Brauchle 2013-03-13 16:05:21 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=529568) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=529568) y2logs -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190#c3 Thomas Fehr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #3 from Thomas Fehr 2013-03-13 16:35:25 UTC --- Autoyast uses the same size for swap as the proposal code in interactive YaST. So far I did not get requests to change that. Problem is that requirements for swap for traditional swap usage and for hibernation are quite different. For normal swap, 2G (the current upper limit) is plenty and any real-world system really using more than 2G swap would be more or less unusable. For hibernation the swap size should indeed be larger. But this is mostly useful for laptops while I would assume most autoyast installations are on other systems. So far I do not plan to change size determined by "auto". What could be done, would be adding something like "hibernate" keyword in addition to "auto", which would Autoyast make choose maximum of "auto" size and memory size. Maybe it would be interesting to raise this question on "opensuse-autoinstall" mailing list to get some more input from other users. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190#c5 --- Comment #5 from Thomas Fehr 2013-03-13 17:26:49 UTC --- Yes, the size calculation is done in Partitions.ycp which is part of yast2-storage. But since I am currently maintaining both modules, this is not relevant.

But this seems to be more a problem of the Yast Storage module than AutoYast, right? So does the storage module actually propose swap size >=RAM on laptops when the user asks for a partitioning proposal?

From the fact that we do not get complaints or bugreports about that, I would assume not a large number of non-tech-savy linux user use laptops with more than 2Gig RAM. But in my opinion linux on laptops is a marginally

No, as you already looked up, the swap size proposal has a hard upper size limit of 2G. And you are right this is not optimal for hibernation. percentage anyway (probably by far most linux laptop users work for linux companies ;-) and laptops with linux preinstalled, the size can be chosen correctly. Unfortunately changing swap size for all systems would probably cause more trouble (e.g. in area of o virtual machines with small virtual disks). And it is not too easy to detect if a machine is a Laptop from looking at hardware data. I am not a kernel expert and so I do not know if one could use a file. Certainly not without significant changes in resume handling and probably not in the general case (e.g. on LVM, Raid) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809190#c7 Thomas Fehr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #7 from Thomas Fehr 2013-03-14 17:19:31 UTC --- I changes this now so that in interactive YaST you have a checkbox where you can tell that you want an enlarged swap for suspend being possible. For autoyast I added the special keyword "suspend" in addition to "auto" to be understood as swap size. If "suspend" is found there will be no limit on swap size at 2G and memory size is used as swap size if it is larger than the size that would be used with "auto". All this channges are post 12.3 ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.