On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:01 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > Thanks Chris. That's good to know. I haven't checked out how much > > space hibernate uses here and was simply passing on what I'd read. So > > actual use info is nice to have. What's the simplest method to check > > how much space hibernate is using? > > Well, for me, when I hibernate the system tells me how much is used. I think > this feature was new (for me at least) with FC6. In FC5 it was just a blank > screen whilst hibernating. > > I've run a few tests and the values seem a little higher than I first thought. > The average seems to be around 380MB, when hibernating a full X session with > KDE running, but most applications shutdown. The amount goes up a bit if I > leave them running when hibernating. I think that the entire X backing store (video memory) is swapped out in hibernation. If you have 256MB of video RAM, then 256MB of swap would be used by that. Just a guess. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
