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> If the swap were allocated to the whole HD that wasn't used for actual files, then this hack wouldn't work.

Then the hack wouldn't be neccesary as they'd have far more committed space to waste



Right. What I'm saying is that swap vs available HD is a tradeoff the OS should be making and it's probably going too far in the "have avail HD" side of the spectrum or at least not employing enough predictive analytics to figuring out the right balance for any given time.




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