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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Windows doesn't have fixed-size swap. It uses pagefiles.

Edit: apparently pagefiles can be given a static size as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This can be specified manually to be static

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, neat! I had no idea. Still, the term "swap" would be incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

A “swap” file is for holding pages of memory that have been swapped from RAM to disk.