hibernation problem

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

I am not sure how to interpret the results so need your assistance:

       385264     359296      25968          0       9200      97128
-/+ buffers/cache:     252968     132296
Swap:       891568     140136     751432

Gary


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> > It seems to hibernate, then restarts, going to the login screen, then the
> > password screen, but sometimes skipping the former, then loads.  After it
> > loads I get an error message saying ubuntu has failed to hibernbate.  So
> > it
> > shuts down but either does or does not resume normally.  In either case I
> > get that error message.
>
> That generally means you don't have enough (or perhaps even any) swap
> space.
>
> What does "free" show?
>
> $ free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1025972     988224      37748          0          0     249564
> -/+ buffers/cache:     738660     287312
> Swap:      3004112     129140    2874972
>
> If Mem/Used is less than Swap/Free, you have a problem.   If you don't have
> _any_ swap, try: "sudo swapon -a".
> --
> derek
>
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