[ltp] swsusp vs. Hibernate?

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 13:19:03 -0800, Bill Sheppard wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I've got a T42 w/1GB RAM running SuSE 9.3.  Suspend-to-disk (via
> standard kernel swsusp) works fine, but generally takes a long time
> while freeing memory in order to fit the suspend image into available
> swap space.  I'd rather dedicate up to a GB on the hard disk for a
> suspend file and not worry about freeing memory prior to suspend.  Can I
> do this with standard swsusp, or can I enable Redisafe somewhere and use
> that for hibernate rather than swsusp?

Suspend2 can do this. You can specify the maximum size of the image
there, or just save the whole memory content.

Regards,
Tino