How much swap on laptop?

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Dec 13 21:33:02 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:10 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Interesting, I hadn't considered that.
> 
> Might explain something which did confuse me a little. I ran 'free -m' just 
> before hibernating, and from that concluded I had ~280M of ram in active use, 
> minus the file cache etc. Hibernating then wrote ~380M. I have 128M video 
> card so that might explain the difference ?

I suspect that's the case.  It'd sure be easier for the system to
restore the display that way than to try to repaint it.

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