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Mac OS does the same in this regard though, but in my experience neither Mac OS or Linux are particularly aggressive at using swap anyway.
by chungus_khan 7y ago
Mac OS does the same in this regard though, but in my experience neither Mac OS or Linux are particularly aggressive at using swap anyway.
- seba_dos1 7y agoYup, macOS dynamically allocates swap files on disk when they're needed - that's why you may see 0 swap space in htop, which doesn't mean that it doesn't use swap.
- Lio 7y agoThat’s interesting. I wonder can Linux be persuaded to dynamically alter the swap space from 0 as part of the suspend script?
- chungus_khan 7y agoI think if you were to use a swapfile and set swappiness to zero it should behave like this.
- Lio 7y agoBrilliant! I think this is the going to be the answer. Have the swapfile but use swappiness to tell the kernel not to use it day to day. Thank you :D