-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2017-12-14 at 11:17 -0500, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
I am finally breaking out my Linux Mag DVD to install on my shiny used laptop, and the partitioner has me scratching my head. I have 8G of RAM, and I gave myself about 17G of swap space when I laid out the disk. The partitioner has a check box for "Enlarge swap for suspend", although it isn't selectable (perhaps because I have my OS partition right behind it?). Sooooo...
How much swap do I need if I'm planning to suspend to disk (aka hibernate as compared to sleep, but I forget the s2/s3/... stages)?
Well, you need as much as you need... :-) There can't be an exact reccomendation. You initial choice of 17G is fine (it is what I have, more or less). Only experience with your actual usage pattern will tell. For hibernation you need the same ammount of used RAM + the ammount of already used swap at the instant of hibernation. However, the hibernation image can be compressed, perhaps half. This instant I'm using 6.1 GB of swa, and a bit under 5GB of RAM, so I might need up to 11GB to hibernate. Some people say "2 times RAM", but that comes, IMO, from the Windows times when that was the maximum. Others disagree. I had a Linux system with 20 times at least. And yes, it was actually needed.
TIA & Happy Holidays
:-D
Same. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloy8MYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UC5wCfbygajbHRucsByRA46ZLtq1zs CjIAn0+SRiNPBJG2g9nhI3Q/Ihz8PXoL =4LvO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org