On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:58:41 -0400 Carl Hartung <opensuse@cehartung.com> wrote:
This system has 4 GB RAM but only a 2 GB swap partition. Was this just dumb luck?
Yes and no. Hibernate will compress memory image before storing it to the swap, so depending on what was in the memory and how good is compression ratio it may, or may not fit to available disk space. Some file types, and gaps with no valid content, is possible to compress better then memory with a lot of valid content that is already encrypted, or has files that have poor compression ratio. Obviously, it works fine for majority of people, as we can't see massive complains, but taking how cheap is disk space, having large swap as in 1.5xRAM_size is a safe bet. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org