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Source: swapd
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>=4.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.5.8
Package: swapd
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Swap demon for dynamic swap file creation
Swapd is a dynamic swapping manager for Linux. It provides the system with
as much swap space (virtual memory) as is required at a particular time by
dynamically creating swap files. This is more convenient than using fixed swap
files and/or partitions because they (a) are unused most of the time and are
just taking up disk space; and (b) provide a limited amount of virtual memory.
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On systems that have constant need for virtual memory it would still be
wise to use a swap partition in parallel with dynamic swapping, since swap
partitions provide much faster access than swap files.
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