On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:43:48PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > I'm not sure what the up side is of swapfiles. If there were a daemon > that dynamically created them when needed, then there wouldn't be such > a waste of space for something that's not used much. And conversely if > used, then multiple swapfiles can be dynamically created (I think up > to 32 swap devices are possible), and then cleaned up once no longer > needed. But we don't have such a thing so it's a fixed size allocation > whether swap file or swap partition. I'm not seeing the advantage. The problem with having them created on demand is that the time you need swap is probably _not_ the time you want a daemon firing up to create it. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
