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Why would it never happen? The swap space is still limited. If you run out stuff gets killed by the OOM (out of memory) killer. What's the difference? Also, it
by globular-toast 3y ago
Why would it never happen? The swap space is still limited. If you run out stuff gets killed by the OOM (out of memory) killer. What's the difference?
Also, it's not just about space. SSDs have a very limited number of write cycles before they fail.
- jsheard 3y agoWith swap it practically never happens unless you have a catastrophic memory leak somewhere. Write endurance isn't that much of a concern with modern SSDs, I just retired an SSD which had been used as my main system and swap drive for about 5 years, and it had clocked up about 80TB of writes in that time. Its rated write endurance was 600TB, and now it's not uncommon for drives to be rated for double or quadruple that amount.