tbh windows was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%

so it would use a max of 819.2M for a total of 2457.6M of swap space.

calling it total is a bit of a stretch. that’s the best case scenario, when the contents compress well.

also, zswap might not be a good idea on that system. if it only has 4 GB RAM, it likely has a CPU tht is slower and has only a couple cores, and the modern web is cpu heavy enough as it is

but that’s not what’s happening. processes do actually get removed from RAM, and when they are needed they are very slow until they are loaded back. the system thinks it’s more valuable to have that memory be filesystem cache