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made the fact that OP is talking about RAM clearer (early on), some formatting.
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I have a MBPan early Early 2011 MBP, which I have putinstalled 16GB of RAM in, despite the fact that appleApple claims the maxmaximum is 8GB, this. This is a hack which is known to work–work, but I'm having some trouble with hibernate as a result. It

It seems my sleep image is only 8GB, despite the fact that my RAM is 16GB,16GB; consequently, if I lose power while having more than 8GB in memory, safe sleep fails.
Any

Any ideas on how to correct this?

I have a MBP Early 2011, which I have put 16GB in, despite the fact that apple claims the max is 8GB, this is a hack which is known to work– but I'm having some trouble with hibernate as a result. It seems my sleep image is only 8GB, despite the fact that my RAM is 16GB, consequently, if I lose power while having more than 8GB in memory, safe sleep fails.
Any ideas on how to correct this?

I have an early Early 2011 MBP, which I installed 16GB of RAM in, despite the fact that Apple claims the maximum is 8GB. This is a hack which is known to work, but I'm having some trouble with hibernate as a result.

It seems my sleep image is only 8GB, despite the fact that my RAM is 16GB; consequently, if I lose power while having more than 8GB in memory, safe sleep fails.

Any ideas on how to correct this?

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sleepimage wrong size

I have a MBP Early 2011, which I have put 16GB in, despite the fact that apple claims the max is 8GB, this is a hack which is known to work– but I'm having some trouble with hibernate as a result. It seems my sleep image is only 8GB, despite the fact that my RAM is 16GB, consequently, if I lose power while having more than 8GB in memory, safe sleep fails.
Any ideas on how to correct this?