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Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Thu May 14 13:25:20 UTC 2009


Sascha Güthling wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
>> Steven Vollom wrote:
>>> Dear Goh Lip
>>> (trim)
>>> I have decided I want to have suspend to disk ability.  That requires swap
>>> equal to my RAM, doesn't it.  Will that automatically happen too?
>>> (trim)
>> Steven, I am not clear about suspend to disk requirements, I had always
>> thought it uses the RAM memory rather than the hard disk. Also when
>> RAM's  are 4 GB or more, the accepted opinion is that 2GB of swap memory
>> may not even be necessary. But they are not talking about suspend to
>> disk. If I were you, (and I am not you), having lots of RAM and hard
>> disks, I would allocate 12 GB to swap.
>>
> You confuse Suspend to RAM with Suspend to Disk. I guess you see the
> difference already. Suspend to Ram shuts down the system but keeps the
> RAM powered so you don't loose it. Suspend to Disk saves the content
> of the RAM to the HDD (here to the swap area) and shuts the computer
> down completely. That's why you need that much swap to be able to do
> that. When waking up the content is read back into RAM and the system
> looks like when you left it.
> snip
>> All the best,
>> Goh Lip
>>
> Cheers
> Sascha

Sascha,
Okay, thanks for the info.
Something new to learn.

Regards
Goh lip





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