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But but but... if I do something so timing-sensitive that the improved swap-performance is going to matter, maybe I should just stuff my machine with enough RAM
by krylon 8y ago
But but but... if I do something so timing-sensitive that the improved swap-performance is going to matter, maybe I should just stuff my machine with enough RAM so it does not swap in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, it's cool that it's possible to use Video RAM as a swap device. But I don't see the practical value.
- mort96 8y agoMaybe you just happen to want to do something which requires a lot of memory, and don't want to spend the money to upgrade RAM right now, or you're on a system where upgrading RAM is impossible, or your want to complete the task now without delaying it until you have installed more RAM. My laptop has 8GB of RAM, enough for most use, but it proved way too small when trying to compile Chromium (where the linker would get OOM killed even with 8GB RAM + 8GB swap). If I was instead doing that on a system with <24GB of RAM but with a beefy GPU, using some of the graphics memory as swap instead of a relatively slow SATA 3 SSD would've been attractive.
- kbob 8y agoThink about low-budget computing. Maybe all you have is a dumpster-computer, and a new set of DIMMs costs more than your monthly income.