On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Scott Lawrence <bytbox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you want to hibernate, you need at least as much as you have RAM. > > I'm not sure this is true. AFAIK, both swsusp and uswsusp try to > reduce the hibernation image as much as possible – I think > /sys/power/image_size defaults to 1 GB for swsusp. (A large part of > RAM is usually used by cache, which can be just freed before > hibernating.) > > -- > Mantas Mikulėnas As far as I know linux kernel expects a swap by default (that might have changed after 3 kernel though..). Personally I have 8Gb of RAM and rarely some KB are written to the swap. Even when I had 4Gb or memory it was the same, rarely used it. I have set swap to be 500Mb and set the kernel rarely to swap anything to my SSD. Note: for SSDs it's not recommended to have the swap writing a lot to the disk as it wears off the SSD. -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}