hibernate fails due to lack of swap space

[zero1]

i only allocated 256M of swap. didn't think i'd have a need for a big one. for the past years, it seems my swap partitions hardly ever get touched at all. so now hibernate fails whenever i try to let it. it says not enough swap space.

i've tried to experiment and created a swapfile to add to the swap, to make the total swap to 1GB. hibernate still doesn't work.

so how much swap space do i need to get hibernate to work? or is hibernate something Kubuntu can't do?

[sky]

Re: hibernate fails due to lack of swap space

Hi,

Usually it's the same as sum of ram used + swap used
But I know that if you are adding after, you should modify files of config, but don't remember which one.

[penguin.ch]

Re: hibernate fails due to lack of swap space

i've tried to experiment and created a swapfile to add to the swap

Just to eliminate the usual suspect(s): did you explicitly activate the added swap space?

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Further reading: man swapon , swap files