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Back in the 90s memory was small compared to disk, so it was fine. There's no way you'd enable swap equal to memory size these days, for large memory machines.
by emmelaich 5y ago
Back in the 90s memory was small compared to disk, so it was fine.
There's no way you'd enable swap equal to memory size these days, for large memory machines.
- throw0101a 5y agoDisk are still much bigger than memory on the majority systems. I can buy >16TB disks: I don't think I've deployed a machine with more than 1TB of RAM. (Maybe 2-4 (out of hundreds) in an HPC environment at previous employer had 1.5T?)
- emmelaich 5y agoIt's more about the speed; if you have 1Tb of swap, mostly used then the situation is so serious it's basically fatal.