@ Blacksimon

I can confirm your experience -so far- with Knoppix 6.7.1 & CeBIT 7.
And I'm flabbergasted.

However, I can't seem to get any combination of my apps to create any 'used' swap values.
I'm using your commands but asking for 3.1 Gb swap, having 3.6 Gb total and apps amounting to 1+ Gb.
Perhaps there's yet one more magic word necessary to enable the magic.

Also, in my case, I have 2 cpus, and probably should enable 2 swap files.
Let me know how you make out.

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