alt Hacker NewsToday's swap also is not preallocated by the user. It is entirely handled by the OS itself. If it needs swap space to hibernate it will go ahead and allocate it itself.
Today's swap also is not preallocated by the user. It is entirely handled by the OS itself. If it needs swap space to hibernate it will go ahead and allocate it itself.
It does? Last I checked Linux doesn't do dynamic swap sizes, and while Windows has dynamic swap sizes it has a separate big non-dynamic file for hibernation. I have no idea what MacOS does.