[TuxOnIce-users] Help with "Not enough free memory" error

[Ben Rich]

Can't anyone help me with this problem?  I know I have enough memory,
so what could be the problem?  I think it is something to do with my
kernel configuration, although I have been over it many times.  Please
help!

Ben

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ben Rich <mrbrich at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used TuxOnIce before, and I has always worked well for me.  Now,
> I have a problem with it, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to
> help me out because I think it must be a simple problem.  When I
> initiate hibernation (sudo hibernate -F /etc/hibernate/tuxonice.conf),
> the system begins to hibernate but then wakes up again right away.  In
> dmesg output, I see the following:
>
> PM: Creating hibernation image:
> PM: Need to copy 1032191 pages
> PM: Normal pages needed: 1032191 + 1024, available pages: 931534
> PM: Not enough free memory
> Error -12 hibernating
>
>
> I'm trying to save the image to my swap partition /dev/sda2 which is
> 4GB (same as RAM).  Here is the output of the free command, which
> shows that very little memory is actually being used, and that the
> swap partition should be big enough to hold the image:
>
> [ben at t400s ~]$ free -m
>            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3858        645       3213          0         17        297
> -/+ buffers/cache:        329       3528
> Swap:         4096          1       4095
>
>
> Please ask if there is any more information that I can provide that
> will be useful for debugging this problem.  Thank you in advance.
>