Tim: >> It does if you want to suspend/hibernate to the swap space. Your RAM >> has to dump its contents somewhere, and that's where it goes. Roberto Ragusa: > Then consider that swap space is not there doing nothing and just awaiting > your hibernating. > Some of it could be really in use at the moment you hibernate. Which would be managed by the OS as the system hibernates... And, there's the thing about having *more* swap space than RAM, so there is some wiggle room. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.7-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 18:40:30 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- 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