How much swap on laptop?

[Chris Jones]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 6:52 pm, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:14:13AM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> using the system for. You may not need any swap, or you may find
> >> you need 1GB of swap.
> >
> > If you need 1GB of swap, you probably *really* need more RAM.
>
> If you have a laptop with 1GB of RAM and you want to use hibernate,
> you'll want more than 1GB of swap.  That's what Mikkel was referring
> to in his message.

I think it is generally a good idea to try and have as much swap as ram for 
hibernate.

That said, on my laptop I have 1.25 G ram with 1G swap (originally I had 512M 
ram but upgrade a year back, and didn't increase the swap size as I cannot 
easily repartition) . However, I have never run into problems with 
hibernation failing because of this - most of the time hibernation only uses 
200-400M, a small fraction of the available 1G swap.

Chris