Linux hibernation

[Ozan Türkyılmaz]

2011/3/14 Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>:
>>     I am looking at the source code 2.6.29 and find that Linux will
>> make a copy of used memory pages when doing hibernation. I am curious,
>> in this case, what Linux do if I have used over 50% of memory? Will
>> hibernation just fail? I think it is not possible, but I can't
>
> I have seen hibernation fail on my laptop if I have a lot of
> applications open (evolution/empathy). Then if I close these apps and
> hibernate again...it works. So yes, I think it can fail if it doesn't
> have enough RAM available.
>

You mean swap place right. I had similar failures over small swap
space because I had way too much things open on my computer.


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