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I disabled the swap in Windows, because I have 32G RAM (and why put unnecessary wear on the SSD). And now it runs out of memory while half the RAM is empty. A
by pas 4y ago
I disabled the swap in Windows, because I have 32G RAM (and why put unnecessary wear on the SSD). And now it runs out of memory while half the RAM is empty.
A marvelous operating system.
But yeah, at least I saw the warning fast, with the swap file it first came to a sudden halt, and after a lot of time it might have shown the alert.
- astrange 4y agoTurning off swap will lead to running out of memory earlier than you’d think because different tasks can allocate a lot instantaneously - you just need a few of them to line up and try allocating a lot at once. I don’t see how you can realistically operate a computer this way unless you control all the software on it, or you enjoy buying way more RAM than you need. (Also swap isn’t the only alternative to allocating memory - there’s also purgeable allocations and memory compression.)