@GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
2026-09-13 19:09 UTC
Replies (19)
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@Dirk@lemmy.ml 2026-09-13 19:13
Remember when they said “swap should be 2 times the amount of RAM”. Why would I waste 128 GiB of storage for nothing?
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@PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2026-09-13 19:14
And if you need swap just do a swap file
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@mkwt@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 19:55
pagefile.sys has entered the chat.
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@TootSweet@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 20:18
I know right now you’re stuck exclusively using swap, but If you work hard and apply yourself, you may one day be able to afford one whole gigabyte of ram without going more than five figures into debt.
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@rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2026-09-13 20:32
Oh, you mean the hibernation partition?
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@serpineslair@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 20:36
I usually make swap partitions on hdds tho never on ssds. I can happily spare ~10GB hdd space in this memory drought.
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@Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-13 20:36
My skyrim modpack need 60GB of Swap Space :(
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@shelf@piefed.social 2026-09-13 21:16
I miss Intel optane
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@anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 21:39
I’ll do whatever the fuck I want, thank you.
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@Scoopta@programming.dev 2026-09-13 21:41
Lol, I stopped swapping when I got enough RAM to never need swap
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@SleveMcDichael@programming.dev 2026-09-13 22:51
Please, for the love of who ever you hold in high esteem, use swap. See: chrisdown.name/2018/01/…/in-defence-of-swap.html Now I don’t really like the whole “Heres an article from some rando to prove my point” thing, but anecdotally, the article does line up with my experience (with 32 gigs of system memory). Namely, when I went without swap I experienced frequent system lock-ups, when I added swap on zram, lock ups still happened but less frequently, and when I eventually added disk swap on the recommendation of this article lock ups never happened again.
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@SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2026-09-14 01:18
Sorry, my 8 GB study laptop freezes all the time on Librewolf and it has a Bay Trail chip. I gotta have it.
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@RiQuY@lemmy.zip 2026-09-14 02:04
Everytime I install a fresh OS I setup swap when I feel I’m having OOM issues or random freezes, it’s just creating one 16GB file and enabling it as swap. Much easier than going to read now about zswap zram ot whatever I’m “supposed” to be using.
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@ScarlettStunningSpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-14 03:56
Does it make a system more stable or less stable? What about under proxmox?
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@ArsonButCute@programming.dev 2026-09-14 04:26
I often use FreeBSD on a system with 2 gigs of ram. I WISH swap was useful. OOM killer is so overzealous the thing just kills whatever before even touching swap.
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@GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 2026-09-14 08:29
I have a laptop with 16GB of ram and discovered that if I connect an external display the available ram goes down to 12... but I'd hate to pay 32 GB as if they were 256 GB, I've resigned to keeping 1 (one) instance of intellij opened at a time
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@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2026-09-14 19:04
You’ll have to pry my swap partition out of my cold, dead hands.
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@zerofk@lemmy.zip 2026-09-15 09:53
Go the other way: create a RAM disk.
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@Mikina@programming.dev 2026-09-17 13:10
What, you don’t have your SWAP set to 1TB Google Drive share?