Re: suspend to disk unreliable?
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:13:23AM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:58:09 +0200, lee wrote:
>
> > after suspending to disk during the night and resuming, my computer
> > froze with a black screen after running maybe three minutes.
> >
> > Is suspend to disk that unreliable?
>
> No, but there can be problems with some of your devices or drivers that
> prevent restoring from hibernation "gracefully". You'll have to
> investigate a bit. Review your log.
But which log? I had to press the reset button, there aren't any
relevant entries in the syslog.
> > When suspending to disk, the default size of the image written is 512MB.
> > What happens when there's more data that needs to be saved?
>
> For one who wants to use hibernation, it will take the same space as your
> amount of ram. So if you have 2 GiB. of ram, you'll need at least 2 GiB.
> of free space for hibernanting the machine.
Hm, then why isn't that adjusted automatically?
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