[Bug 604765] Re: [Maverick] 32bit Ubuntu installer not calculating swap correctly for PAE systems

Brent Fox brent.fox at canonical.com
Wed Jul 14 03:43:29 UTC 2010


Let me make sure I understand the problem.  Let's say a machine has 8GB
of RAM.  At install time, the boot kernel only sees 3GB of RAM, so it
creates a 3GB swap partition.  Then later, the installer detects that
the PAE kernel is needed, so it installs it.

After reboot, the user is able to address all 8GB of RAM, but now they
have a swap partition that is not big enough to hold the contents of
memory, therefore hibernate (suspending to disk) is likely to fail.

Do I have that right?

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[Maverick] 32bit Ubuntu installer not calculating swap correctly for PAE systems
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