Re: F21 Workstation System Requirements - Storage

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On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:48 AM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Since suspend to disk ("hibernate") requires swap, I'm pretty sure we should
>>> recommend it by default for workstation. In order to make this as close to
>>> 100% reliable as possible, this really should be as big as RAM -- but in
>>> practical use (I dunno, 99% of the time?) it only needs to fit what's
>>> actually used so can be much smaller.
>> 
>> Blivet code has swap = mem + swap when hibernation=True, so for anything with less than 64GB RAM swap is effectively 2x RAM. [1] However, blivet has hibernation=False so we get 1x which sometimes isn't enough. Further, anaconda doesn't set resume= boot parameter.
> 
> That's not needed. The initrd handles that.


See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965814#c12

The work around is to use resume= but the bug isn't updated in 7 months so I can't tell if this is fixed, the work around is still needed or sometimes needed.

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