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Comment by charcircuit

5 hours ago

Linux distros that do use swap files do so statically. It doesn't handle dynamically growing and shrinking it like other operating systems.

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0xbadcafebee  5 hours ago

Unless you use the Linux package that does manage swap files dynamically.

  • kaelwd  2 hours ago

    https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace

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