How much swap on laptop?

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:01 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Chris.  That's good to know.  I haven't checked out how much
> > space hibernate uses here and was simply passing on what I'd read.  So
> > actual use info is nice to have.  What's the simplest method to check
> > how much space hibernate is using?
> 
> Well, for me, when I hibernate the system tells me how much is used. I think 
> this feature was new (for me at least) with FC6. In FC5 it was just a blank 
> screen whilst hibernating.
> 
> I've run a few tests and the values seem a little higher than I first thought. 
> The average seems to be around 380MB, when hibernating a full X session with 
> KDE running, but most applications shutdown. The amount goes up a bit if I 
> leave them running when hibernating.

I think that the entire X backing store (video memory) is swapped out in
hibernation.  If you have 256MB of video RAM, then 256MB of swap would
be used by that.  Just a guess.

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