| You've described what the purpose of a swapfile is – thanks? My argument is simply that you don't need a swapfile with enough real memory; that swapfiles can unnecessarily shorten the lives of SSDs, entirely unnecessarily. ---- >I have 20GB of RAM free (me) >>~need to have quick access to main memory >I have 20GB of RAM free (still me) >>~yeah but "quickly reclaimed for another purpose" >I have 20GB of RAM free (!m!e!) //of//32GB//ttl// ---- In linuxland, I'd just type `sudo swapoff -a` and be done with it. That machine has 96GB of RAM, so it would have ~84GB of RAM free (if, hypothetically, the same hardare/configuration were operating that system). Does. not. need. a swapfile. The operating system, during bootup, should think "hey I have dozens of gigabytes of RAM, won't be needing any swapfiles" – behind the scenes and without input. |