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Why does the OS need to copy all RAM into HDD for hibernation?

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Mar 15, 20261379 views
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my question is theoretical in computer OSes, specifically about hibernation. As far as I know, hibernation (ACPI state S5, is that right?) involves writing into the hard disk all the data needed to restore RAM when OS os booted up again. OK this sounds good to me. But, I remember the old times of O…

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Fix for: Why does the OS need to copy all RAM into HDD for hibernation?

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The misunderstanding here is that not all RAM contents are swappable to disk. User processes have dedicated swap space, but system does not. That is because many parts of the system are never swapped out, and the ones that are swapped out are simply…

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