The last couple time I tried to hibernate, I got an error message:> PM: Not enough free swapI find that hard to believe: [hennebry at localhost doc]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3833 1124 2709 0 51 286 -/+ buffers/cache: 786 3047 Swap: 11453 356 11097 [hennebry at localhost doc]$ 1124+786+356=2266< 11097 How do I figure out what is going on and fix it? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
On 07/07/2014 06:55 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> The last couple time I tried to hibernate, I got an error message: >> PM: Not enough free swap > I find that hard to believe: > [hennebry at localhost doc]$ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3833 1124 2709 0 51 286 > -/+ buffers/cache: 786 3047 > Swap: 11453 356 11097 > [hennebry at localhost doc]$ > 1124+786+356=2266< 11097 > > How do I figure out what is going on and fix it? >How much RAM do you have?
On 07/06/2014 02:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> The last couple time I tried to hibernate, I got an error message: >> PM: Not enough free swap > I find that hard to believe: > [hennebry at localhost doc]$ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3833 1124 2709 0 51 286 > -/+ buffers/cache: 786 3047 > Swap: 11453 356 11097 > [hennebry at localhost doc]$ > 1124+786+356=2266< 11097 > > How do I figure out what is going on and fix it? >FWIW, I create 2xmemory for swap size. My theory is if all the memory is used, then probably some of the swap is as well, so there better still be as much unused swap as memory. So far I have not failed to hiberate with this approach.