On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:56, Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Â ÂI try the hibernation feature with my MIPS box which has 128MB RAM. After
> boot up, it remains to have 110MB something. Then I mount ramfs on a
> directory, create a file 100MB from /dev/urandom and enter hibernation. The
> process failed because of no memory. Then, I continue to cut the data file
> size and not success until 20MB.
>
> Â ÂI want to make sure if it is an expected behavior or I am doing some
> wrong?
How large is your swapspace? Hibernation needs space on swap to store
the contents
of RAM (that cannot be loaded again from somewhere else).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
            Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
             Â Â -- Linus Torvalds
