Hibernation fails

[John Hubbard]

I am confused about what the swap partition is. I thought that it was 
the place that data got written to if you ran out of ram. I usually set 
up my swap partition so that it is the same size as system mem. I 
thought that this meant that (for a performance hit) my computer with 
1GB of ram would behave like it had 2GB of ram.
If my above understanding is correct wouldn't it generally be unsafe to 
save to your mem to the swap partition? If your memory was full and you 
had anything written in swap you would run out of space. I am not sure 
how often memory is 'full' but it seems like it would just be too unsafe 
to risk.



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-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
                2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
               0b11111111
        255, that is the answer.