Swap: Revision history

17 March 2026

• curprev 02:5802:58, 17 March 2026 Hasnep talk contribs m 14,500 bytes +1 Change GB to GiB and MB to MiB
• curprev 02:5002:50, 17 March 2026 Hasnep talk contribs m 14,499 bytes 0 Fix typo in URL Tag: Visual edit: Switched

12 February 2026

• curprev 23:4123:41, 12 February 2026 Turnipjs talk contribs m 14,499 bytes 0 →Adjusting swap usage behaviour: fix typo Tag: Visual edit

5 January 2026

• curprev 22:2222:22, 5 January 2026 Httpdev talk contribs 14,499 bytes +2,464 Added section on separately encrypted swap partition. Tag: Visual edit

6 November 2025

• curprev 18:1318:13, 6 November 2025 Jopejoe1 talk contribs m 12,035 bytes +3 add closing bracket

10 July 2025

• curprev 11:0611:06, 10 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 12,032 bytes +39 →Encrypt swap with random key: ~
• curprev 11:0511:05, 10 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,993 bytes −88 →Encrypt swap with random key: ~
• curprev 11:0411:04, 10 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 12,081 bytes +97 →Encrypt swap with random key
• curprev 10:5810:58, 10 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,984 bytes +481 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit: Switched

8 July 2025

• curprev 10:3210:32, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,503 bytes +6 →discard: ~
• curprev 10:3110:31, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,497 bytes +7 →discard: ~
• curprev 10:2810:28, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,490 bytes +55 →discard: ~
• curprev 10:2710:27, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,435 bytes −5 →Disable swap: ~
• curprev 10:2710:27, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,440 bytes +187 →discard: ~
• curprev 10:1710:17, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,253 bytes +2 →Encrypt swap with random key: ~
• curprev 10:1710:17, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,251 bytes +59 →Encrypt swap with random key: ~
• curprev 10:1410:14, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,192 bytes +667 →Encrypt swap with random key
• curprev 10:0110:01, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 10,525 bytes +18 →Swap file: ~
• curprev 09:5909:59, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 10,507 bytes +368 ~ Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• curprev 09:5509:55, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 10,139 bytes +201 →discard: ~
• curprev 09:5409:54, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 9,938 bytes +456 →Tips and Tricks: ~
• curprev 09:4809:48, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 9,482 bytes −8 →Adjusting swap usage behaviour: ~
• curprev 09:4709:47, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 9,490 bytes +378 →Adjusting swap usage behaviour: It's more of a process(anon page):cache ratio
• curprev 09:4209:42, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 9,112 bytes +131 →Zswap swap cache: ~
• curprev 09:3909:39, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 8,981 bytes +137 →Zram writeback
• curprev 09:2509:25, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 8,844 bytes +1 →Disable swap: ~
• curprev 09:2409:24, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 8,843 bytes +273 →Disable swap: ~
• curprev 09:2109:21, 8 July 2025 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 8,570 bytes +597 →Zram writeback: os error 16

15 June 2025

• curprev 16:3816:38, 15 June 2025 Pigs talk contribs m 7,973 bytes +131 →Zswap swap cache: add note of needing to enable systemd for using lz4 Tag: Visual edit: Switched

24 May 2025

• curprev 17:3317:33, 24 May 2025 Pigs talk contribs m 7,842 bytes +68 →Swap file: clarify that it creates the swap file

7 May 2025

• curprev 17:0317:03, 7 May 2025 Pigs talk contribs 7,774 bytes −14 →Swap file: Use current channel for search.nixos.org link Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

26 April 2025

• curprev 03:5503:55, 26 April 2025 Pigs talk contribs 7,788 bytes +661 document zram writeback functionality

24 April 2025

• curprev 18:0018:00, 24 April 2025 Pigs talk contribs 7,127 bytes +2,279 Add swappiness, zswap, and updated opening statement

23 April 2025

• curprev 17:0317:03, 23 April 2025 Pigs talk contribs 4,848 bytes +493 No edit summary

22 April 2025

• curprev 06:0006:00, 22 April 2025 Pigs talk contribs 4,355 bytes +777 Add btrfs subsection, minor readability changes

15 March 2025

• curprev 13:5713:57, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs m 3,578 bytes +21 final edit
• curprev 13:5313:53, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs m 3,557 bytes +83 minor edit #3
• curprev 13:3613:36, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs m 3,474 bytes 0 minor edit #2
• curprev 13:3413:34, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs m 3,474 bytes +48 minor edit
• curprev 13:3413:34, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs 3,426 bytes +118 warning for example
• curprev 13:2813:28, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs 3,308 bytes +355 swapspace additional info
• curprev 13:2313:23, 15 March 2025 Phanirithvij talk contribs 2,953 bytes +662 recommend swapspace

16 December 2024

• curprev 10:2810:28, 16 December 2024 Granddave talk contribs m 2,291 bytes −9 Format swapDevices snippet according to nixpkgs-fmt
• curprev 10:2810:28, 16 December 2024 Granddave talk contribs m 2,300 bytes −9 Format swapDevices snippet according to nixpkgs-fmt
• curprev 10:0710:07, 16 December 2024 Granddave talk contribs m 2,309 bytes 0 Update channel from 23.05 to 24.11 Tag: Visual edit: Switched

24 July 2024

• curprev 12:4712:47, 24 July 2024 W4tsn talk contribs 2,309 bytes +581 Add section about zram as an option for swap on nixos Tag: Visual edit

26 August 2023

• curprev 08:4608:46, 26 August 2023 imported>Zarelit 1,728 bytes +95 Add "size" parameter unit of measure and pointer to nixos option

20 April 2023

• curprev 09:1709:17, 20 April 2023 imported>Winny 1,633 bytes +268 mention zfs gotcha
• curprev 09:1309:13, 20 April 2023 imported>Winny 1,365 bytes +28 add a category
• curprev 06:4806:48, 20 April 2023 imported>Winny m 1,337 bytes 0 case