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What's hilarious to me, growing up in the era of swap, is that now you can have so much RAM that you can start caching your disk to RAM for a little extra perfo
by saalweachter 7y ago
What's hilarious to me, growing up in the era of swap, is that now you can have so much RAM that you can start caching your disk to RAM for a little extra performance (well, we've kind of moved past that, too, since SSDs are so much faster than spinny disks).
- rcxdude 7y agoIn fact, it's often worth moving some stuff in RAM to swap in order to have more space for disk cache (if you ever max out the RAM on a linux machine without swap you'll find it's a miserable experience because of the lack of cache and the fact that code from executables just gets memory mapped into the process address space).