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Package: swapd (0.2-10) [universe]

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Aigars Mahinovs

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

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.

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.

Other Packages Related to swapd

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  • suggests
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 16.9 kB112.0 kB [list of files]
i386 15.9 kB108.0 kB [list of files]