Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:08:29 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [swsusp] not enough memory |
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Hi!
> > On my 64MB notebook I get the following message, when going swsusp: > > > > .. > > swsusp: Need to copy 15526 pages > > swsusp: Not enough free memory > > Error -12 suspending > > .. > > > > # free > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 62760 59884 2876 0 3828 16052 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 40004 22756 > > Swap: 200804 30316 170488 > > > > If I end all apps but the XServer it works. I've allready added some > > more swapspace, but that didn't help. So, how much memory will I need > > for a successful suspend or better (since i can't stuff any more into > > it) is there a way to minimize the amount needed? > > swsusp needs to be able to free half your memory to be able to suspend. I > don't know it intimately, but you may well be failing to do this. Being > completely biased (and not unwilling to admit it!), I'd suggest you try > Suspend2 (www.suspend2.net). It doesn't have such a limitation.
Actually suspend2 has exactly the same limitation. If more than half memory is occupied by something else than disk caches, you loose in swsusp and suspend2.
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