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The problem is, system cannot know when you're going to use it. If application is swapped out and you use it after several hours, there would be excruciatingly
by garaetjjte 7y ago
The problem is, system cannot know when you're going to use it. If application is swapped out and you use it after several hours, there would be excruciatingly long delay when it restores from spinning HDD disk. If I have reasonable amount of RAM I definitely prefer not to have swap.
- shawnz 7y agoEven if that means lower throughput from all your other apps over that several hour period? That is worth not having to wait a few extra seconds to go back to the less-used app?
- garaetjjte 7y agoDepends, but usually not. Harder to notice minimally better performance than to be annoyed by 2 second lag on application switch. ("this computer have 32GB RAM and it's trashing disk! grr")