zRam and Swapspace

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed May 22 06:57:22 UTC 2013


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 May 2013 20:41, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does hibernation work with swapspace but without sram?
>
> My conclusion is that the demand-based swap files provided by
> `swapspace` - being normally less than the amount of system RAM unless
> under heavy load - are insufficient for hibernation support and the
> system is not "smart" enough to quickly grow the swapfiles to the
> required size when hibernating.

:(

OS X does it by default so it must be possible on Linux, either with
swapspace as-is or in a future version...

Not having to worry about a swap partition's a good thing! :)




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