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		kalleboo on Feb 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do we really need swap on modern systems? It uses a dynamically-sized swap file rather than a dedicated partition.

kalleboo on Feb 24, 2017 [–]

To elaborate, it uses a series of dynamically-sized swap files (something like 256 MB, then adding a 512 MB file, then 1 GB, then 2 GB, etc)

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