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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What are you using swap for? On Fedora installs the swap is just zram.

The worst case without swap is that oom gets triggered. If 16GB gets eaten up chances are it is a single app.

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Coelacanthus@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I think that most of usefulness of swap has passed now that we have systems with noodles of ram.

Please read this article authored by maintainer of Linux kernel memory management subsystem and cgroup subsystem developer, Chris Down.

chrisdown.name/2018/01/…/in-defence-of-swap.html

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LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

what are you using swap for

linuxblog.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-…

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