swap to ram command?

Sterist

is there a terminal command or any way to move all memory stored on swap space back to the ram?

faissl

Which distro..?
I know such a thing is available in some live distros like DSL and Gentoo, but I have no idea about being available in installed distros..

Sterist

this thread is inside the ubuntu sub-forum lol

faissl

LOL didn't notice, I got it from the recent discussions link :cheer:
ok, is that is what you trying to do..?

Sterist

it is not.

whenever i send my laptop into hibernate it moves all memory from the ram to swap, so that it doesn't have to battery-back the ram to maintain the data.

the problem (i guess not really a problem lol) is that when i turn it back on, only some of the memory will go back to the ram, and anywhere from 20-50% will remain on swap.

faissl

Kernel issue, I think

Sterist

i will not strike that out as a possibility, but i don't think so

from my experiences, data is only retrieved from swap when it is needed again by it's host program.