You've described
what the purpose of a swapfile is – thanks? My argument is simply that
you don't need a swapfile with enough real memory; that swapfiles can unnecessarily shorten the lives of SSDs, entirely unnecessarily.
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>I have 20GB of RAM free (me)
>>~need to have quick access to main memory
>I have 20GB of RAM free (still me)
>>~yeah but "quickly reclaimed for another purpose"
>I have 20GB of RAM free (!m!e!)
//of//32GB//ttl//
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In linuxland, I'd just type `sudo swapoff -a` and be done with it. That machine has 96GB of RAM, so it would have ~84GB of RAM free (if, hypothetically, the same hardare/configuration were operating that system).
Does. not. need. a swapfile.
The operating system, during bootup, should think "hey I have dozens of gigabytes of RAM, won't be needing any swapfiles" – behind the scenes and without input.