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This doesn't really make sense. If /tmp was an on-disk directory the same memory pressure that caused swapping would just evict the file from the page cache in
by marginalia_nu 1y ago
This doesn't really make sense. If /tmp was an on-disk directory the same memory pressure that caused swapping would just evict the file from the page cache instead, again leading to a cache miss and a dramatically slower read.
- ars 1y agoReading it back from a filesystem is much much faster than reading it back from swap.