• dan@upvote.au
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    14 hours ago

    Even without hibernation, data in apps you have open will end up in the swap if your system is ever RAM-constrained.

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      12 hours ago

      Generally it only happens to programs you keep running in the background and might not use for a long time that also don’t have much background activity. For example password managers.

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        9 hours ago

        It depends on what you set your swappiness to, too. I think Linux distros still have pretty aggressive defaults that swap more than they probably need to.