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[ale] Linux swap space vs hibernate, power shutdown settings
- Subject: [ale] Linux swap space vs hibernate, power shutdown settings
- From: david at systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik)
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:27:26 -0400
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On 11/05/2011 09:00 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> try setting the system to hibernate when battery is low. Hibernate
> uses the same power as system-off, i.e. none. Suspend is save to ram
> which will croak when the power does fail.
>
> To hibernate, you need swap = ram + used swap at the point of hibernate.
I believe that Ron's point was based on a belief that shut-down takes
less time than hibernate, and is thus more likely to complete before
your UPS dies. For his use case, this may be correct.
David
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