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These are the esoteric and technical arguments that scare me into still using a swapfile and which maybe answer why I see my swap space being used when I have l
by shrimp_emoji 3y ago
These are the esoteric and technical arguments that scare me into still using a swapfile and which maybe answer why I see my swap space being used when I have like 60 GB of RAM free (neither of which make any sense otherwise). :p
- juujian 3y agoSame boat. But hey, last year I had to get a 30GB dataset into memory so you never know... Though now I'm smart enough to optimize better.
- radicalbyte 3y agoOh you're a Chrome user too? :-)
- colanderman 3y agoSimpler answer is: at one point stuff got put into swap to make room for a memory-hungry task, and it hasn't been referenced since, so no need to pull it back into RAM.