Safety Re: Laptop power management support

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Nov 11 18:48:37 CST 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 09:08 +0900, Jan Morén wrote:
> A small safety question: what is the needed size of swap, and, more
> importantly, will Bad Things happen if it's not large enough?

About as much swap as you have RAM ought to be enough, and you can
probably get away with less. If there isn't enough, it'll simply refuse
to suspend and put an error in dmesg. It should never result in data
loss.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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