Allegedly, on or about 31 May 2018, sent:
> The usual method of hibernating is to dump the memory into the
swap
> partition. I do not know what will happen if your swap partition
> is smaller than your RAM, though.
Wolfgang Pfeiffer:
32 GB of RAM here, swap space is just ~16 GB: my guess is that as
long as the totally used memory (including buffers/cache) isn't
bigger than the swap partition, some hibernation image might be
written successfully ... not being sure, tho' ...
I believe it can also use a swap file, so you can add one to a
partition with space. However, when there's more than one swap, I
think you need to set a kernel parameter for the system to look in the
right place for its resuming data.
And swap space is rarely used here, IIRC ..
Generally speaking, the same here. But when I had a system with less
RAM, web browsers were terrible at wasting RAM. If you had enough tabs
open, or hit a badly coded website, the system would start paging and
never recover unless I managed to kill the web browser. Often I
couldn't, because the system was so unresponsive you couldn't use the
mouse or keyboard.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.7-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 2 21:45:56 UTC 2018 x86_64
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