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[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 91 points 6 months ago

That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 60 points 6 months ago

I hate that I kind of like this point...

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

You can set swappiness to 0

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 points 6 months ago

Oh, my bad! Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

That's true for most people talking about swap online.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

That's exactly why we need a CD ROM based solution to explore how swap space works.../s

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