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On servers, unless you have a very fast SSD dedicated to swap, all swap gets you is waiting an extra long time to figure out that the operation you're trying to
by kbolino 2y ago
On servers, unless you have a very fast SSD dedicated to swap, all swap gets you is waiting an extra long time to figure out that the operation you're trying to do is going to fail anyway. The number of tasks that need just a little more RAM after exhausting the dozens to thousands of gigabytes modern computers have are vanishingly few.
- littlestymaar 2y ago> the dozens to thousands of gigabytes modern computers have Hello time traveler, what year do you live in to have regular servers with “dozens of thousands” of GB…
- kbolino 2y ago"to" not "of" Though if you have $400/hour to spend, you can get an u7in-32tb.224xlarge in AWS us-east-1 region.
- goodpoint 2y ago> all swap gets you is waiting an extra long time to figure out that the operation you're trying to do is going to fail anyway No, it gives you progressive performance degradation instead of a hard failure and this is a feature and not a bug.