On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:10 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > > 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. > > Interesting, I hadn't considered that. > > Might explain something which did confuse me a little. I ran 'free -m' just > before hibernating, and from that concluded I had ~280M of ram in active use, > minus the file cache etc. Hibernating then wrote ~380M. I have 128M video > card so that might explain the difference ? I suspect that's the case. It'd sure be easier for the system to restore the display that way than to try to repaint it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - - -- Groucho Marx - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
