Re: [swsusp] not enough memory

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi Richard.

On Saturday 18 February 2006 09:58, Richard Mittendorfer wrote:
> 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.

Regards,

Nigel

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