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That’s not particularly unique, Mac OS and Windows have had compressed memory for years. No fiddling with setting needed either.
by fredoralive 8mo ago
That’s not particularly unique, Mac OS and Windows have had compressed memory for years. No fiddling with setting needed either.
- AdamN 8mo agoIt's not just that it's compressed - the OS is also intelligently handling which memory should be on hardware vs. virtual. Effectively a lot of the memory concerns have been offloaded to the OS and the VM where one exists.
- the-grump 8mo agoIsn't that literally every modern OS, always, unless you tell it to act differently?
- AdamN 8mo agoYes - I didn't mean to imply it was only one of the OSes. Further up the comments people were talking about how memory efficiency is now more important but I was trying to make the point that with compression and virtual memory it still doesn't matter all that much even if memory is double the price.
- Delk 8mo agoIf running low on memory seems to matter less now than it did a couple of decades ago, I'd rather say that's because fast SSDs make swapping a lot faster. Even though virtual memory and swapping were available even on PCs since Windows 3.x or so, running out of memory could still make multitasking slow as molasses due to thrashing and the lack of memory for disk cache. The performance hit from swapping can be a lot less noticeable now. Of course compression being now computationally cheap also helps.
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- creatonez 8mo ago> No fiddling with setting needed either. It's since become the default in several distributions, including Fedora.
- antonkochubey 8mo agoOn windows there is a compensation control in the form of start menu written in react that needs 7 msedgewebview processes to run so that you can search for an app.