On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Well it'd either be an always running little daemon or whatever's triggering it needs to be more forward thinking that at the last minute. I have no idea how macOS's swap files mechanism works exactly but it creates swap files on demand. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
