Not enough free swap space to hibernate

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> swapoff swaplocation
> 
> swaplocation can be either a partition or a file.  I haven't verified,
> but this should free the entire partition for hibernating.  Of course,
> if you don't have enough physical memory, swapoff can trigger the out of
> memory killer, which will cause (seemingly) random processes to die.

You can really have surprising effects with that radical tip.
It could be a bit more secure if the user first close all closable running 
applications.
But  then, if the goal is to hibernate, it becomes no worth.

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