2 ms·

so you would prefer 16GB Optane drive as swap instead of ... you know, actual 16GB DIMM?

• carbocation 10y ago
  In which universe is that a serious question?
  • rasz_pl 10y ago
    In the same one where Lenovo announces brand new Kaby Lake laptops with '16GB Optane cache'.
    • carbocation 10y ago
      To be clear, then, I would not use a 16GB DIMM of RAM for swap. I would use all the RAM I had as RAM. Having something faster than an SSD for swap would be a win; hence my original point. Specifically, if the latency is only 10x higher than RAM (as shown in the image I linked to), then it would allow for trade offs to be made from an engineering perspective regarding scaling up vs scaling out.
• brudgers 10y ago
  At boot time or waking up from hibernation, probably. Or when I'm on low power mode.
• deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]