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"Very few people on this thread read and understood the article." I started to read the article, and then thought, "I know this, who doesn't know this?" and st
by burnte 9y ago
"Very few people on this thread read and understood the article."
I started to read the article, and then thought, "I know this, who doesn't know this?" and stopped.
"The point is making better use of the RAM you do have by taking pages you'll almost never touch and spilling them to disk so that there's more room in RAM for pages you will touch."
Exactly. Who with any technical experience in this day and age doesn't understand that. Are there really people trying to argue against swap?
- quotemstr 9y ago> Exactly. Who with any technical experience in this day and age doesn't understand that You're on a site infamous for the comment "I switch to Node when I want to be close to the metal".
- Agentlien 9y agoIs this a joke or was there actually such a comment? If so, can you link it? To someone like me, who usually lives somewhere between C++ and shader code, it sounds a bit too strange to be true.
- viraptor 9y agoI think this was the origin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383
- d0mine 9y agoIn theory swap is useful, in practice it can be less so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16147634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16147634
- burnte 9y agoIf I hit my thumb with a hammer, that doesn't mean the hammer isn't useful. The edge cases with swap are also entirely useless arguments against swap.