swapspace
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 1, 2026first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“swapspace (https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace) does this.”
“my workaround is the swapspace package which adds swap files under high load, works so far.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
Also written as Swapspace. Data: swapspace.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
> Windows also does a neat trick Linux lacks: automatically adding more swap, up to a limit. Given that one can have swap files, and can also use LVM LVs for swap, and given that userspace OOM killers that work way better than the built in one -for some workloads- exist, I see no reason why you couldn't have this on Linux. This comment [0] mentions a project that claims to do just that -and seems to use swapfiles to
https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace
“swapspace (https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace) does this.”
“my workaround is the swapspace package which adds swap files under high load, works so far.”