What is the practical use in having a swap partition/file?
I have 8GB RAM, does swap still help me?
Swap?
Luis Myers
Other urls found in this thread:
haydenjames.io
twitter.com
Brody Nguyen
>>>/sqg/
Aaron Lewis
There's none it's complete shit. If you for some reason ever exceed your maximum RAM then just reboot your computer.
Angel Peterson
I felt like it was some meme
Caleb Brown
Well, not when it was originally done, when RAM sizes were much smaller
Carson Cox
John Rodriguez
No fuck that shit I'd rather just have Linux kill the offending program over spending 30 minutes just to manually close it
Ian Diaz
Are you letting the OS decide for you?
Caleb Ward
Swap is fine when you don't need to access something right away, that is resident on disk.
Jose Ward
I think it should automatically swap even when it doesn't use app, and having some kind of hybernated applicaiton thing, which doesn't load itself but load ram image... inb4 gtfo, yes I'm mentally ill.
Samuel Long
Best is when you are fucking readwriting database like 1/1 IO one line... The head moves every freaking time, making minutes a years.
Luis Gutierrez
>tfw giving a processes threads and memory over a block switch GUI manually
Brandon Richardson
Memebrowser lack integration.
Ryder Edwards
mainly so overcommit doesn't put your system into some weird position.
David Bell
No, I'm letting the kernel decide for me
Justin Russell
I find it funny that some people be like "oh well you have 16GB of RAM? Then maybe you need 32GB of SWAP" like why not fucking have a secondary hard drive for swap while at it
Alexander Baker
this was back when the general recommendation was to have 2:1 swap:ram ratio
Nicholas Ortiz
You basically never need to have more swap space than you have physical RAM these days. Most people probably don't even need more than 1GB of swap desu. Swap is still useful because when applications are initializing they do a lot of memory operations but then after everything is initialized a lot of that stuff isn't touched again but it does occupy RAM unless its committed to disk. If you allow it to the OS can commit those things to disk and free up RAM for other applications to use.
William Morgan
> run server with SSD
> Need more RAM
> Muh uptime
> make large swap file and destroy hosts hw
> !???
Brody Roberts
>destroy hosts hw
meme
Chase Harris
So you can suspend to disk, which is safer than suspend to RAM if you're using disk encryption.
Austin Reed
Cheers lads