cannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoStop Doing Swap Partitionslemmy.worldimagemessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1691arrow-down136file-textcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
arrow-up1655arrow-down1imageStop Doing Swap Partitionslemmy.worldcannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agobut 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
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 day agoIf true then Linux is a decade behind windows and macOS.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agotbh windows was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoDoubt. It might be copying to swap, but not reading from it.
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
If true then Linux is a decade behind windows and macOS.
tbh windows was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%
Doubt. It might be copying to swap, but not reading from it.