----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Martín Marqués <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > 1) I had trouble getting the system to hibernate. There wasn't > > anything clear about the fact that you needed to have a swap bigger > > than the amount of memory you have. Also, it doesn't work if you have > > a file as swap (which was the easiest way to start testing) > > I don't think swap size has to be bigger than size of RAM. Arch Linux > has a good note on size of swap partition [1] which links to kernel > documentation[2]. I used to make 4GB of swap partition on a system > with 8GB of RAM on Arch Linux. Anaconda makes 7.6GB of swap partition > on same machine. > > Swap file does support hibernating. Again refer to Arch Linux wiki [3]. > > I have tried both of the above scenarios myself. I have switched to > Fedora and I use btrfs filesystem, so, I can't provide any more info. > I have Thinkpad T420i. I actually tried the swap size around Fedora 7 and RHEL 5, an found out RAM * 1.2 is sufficient. I have stuck which this configuration, and never have trouble since. -- Ding-Yi Chen Software Engineer Internationalization Group DID: +61 7 3514 8239 Email: dchen@xxxxxxxxxx Red Hat, Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd Level 1, 193 North Quay Brisbane 4000 Office: +61 7 3514 8100 Fax: +61 7 3514 8199 Website: www.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. Facebook: Red Hat APAC | Red Hat Japan | Red Hat Korea | JBoss APAC Twitter: Red Hat APAC | Red Hat ANZ LinkedIn: Red Hat APAC | JBoss APAC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org