> Windows also does a neat trick Linux lacks: automatically adding more swap, up to a limit. Given that one can have swap files, and can also use LVM LVs for s

> Windows also does a neat trick Linux lacks: automatically adding more swap, up to a limit. Given that one can have swap files, and can also use LVM LVs for swap, and given that userspace OOM killers that work way better than the built in one -for some workloads- exist, I see no reason why you couldn't have this on Linux. This comment [0] mentions a project that claims to do just that -and seems to use swapfiles to do it-, but I don't have any experience with it. FWIW, I did find the README by the original author [1] far more informative than the one written by the new maintainer. [0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656129 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656129> [1] <https://pqxx.org/development/swapspace/ https://pqxx.org/development/swapspace/>