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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