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If the app was from an era where RAM was much smaller, but now there's enough RAM for the use case, this makes sense.
by mjevans 3y ago
If the app was from an era where RAM was much smaller, but now there's enough RAM for the use case, this makes sense.
- eternityforest 3y agoLinux is full of stuff that writes to disk all the time. Browsers do it too. It's possible to do multiple GB an hour doing nothing on some versions with extensions, just from writing and rewriting the same file every minute for probably no good reason other than a dev hated complexity too much to check for unnecessary writes and not wear out the SSD.