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nerdponx
on Feb 24, 2017
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Do we really need swap on modern systems?
How big is the OSX/macOS swap? It's a file and not a partition, right?
kalleboo
on Feb 24, 2017
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It uses a dynamically-sized swap file rather than a dedicated partition.
kalleboo
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To elaborate, it uses a
series
of dynamically-sized swap files (something like 256 MB, then adding a 512 MB file, then 1 GB, then 2 GB, etc)
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