[Techtalk] Question about Software Suspend

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:22:22PM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen writes:
> > suspend -- it says that one should tell the kernel the swap partition to
> > use to suspend to.  Does that mean that one has to have *two* swap
> > partitions -- one for normal swap, and the other for software suspend?
> > Or do you just use the normal swap partition?
> 
> You just use the normal swap partition. In fact, it doesn't seem to
> work to make a second swap partition that isn't used for swap, only
> for swsusp; I tried that the first time I set it up and found out
> that it would only suspend to an active swap partition.

Thanks for clearing that up.
 
> I'm still not clear what happens if you're actually using more than
> your RAM and have things swapped to that partition. (I've seen that
> asked, and asked it myself, but never saw a straight answer.)
> It seems like an odd design.

Indeed.  Somewhat worrying but maybe we're just being too jittery.
 
Kathryn Andersen
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