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Actually possible if you mount google drive and move your swap file there.

• i_think_so 6mo ago
  This is the most pathological technology I have heard of in a long time and I am not even going to apologize for upvoting and telling other people about the evil genius I found on the internet today.
  • fragmede 6mo ago
    icymi https://scp-iota.github.io/software/2025/06/16/download-ram-swap-gdrive.html https://scp-iota.github.io/software/2025/06/16/download-ram-... tldr it's not theorical, some madman actually did that!
• askl 6mo ago
  How about swap on pingfs so you aren't relying on some cloud provider? https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
• tombert 6mo ago
  I've thought about doing stuff like that (or mounting S3), but I've never done it because I figured that the latency would be enormous and it would be too slow to actually be useful. That said, I could actually kind of see it being useful for stuff that doesn't need to be super fast but does allocate a lot of RAM (though I'm drawing a blank on what that would be at the moment).
  • jerf 6mo ago
    Enormous latency is all relative. A network drive on a local network holding a swap file would still outperform some number of computers I've owned that put their swap on much, much slower hard drives of their time. Of course, nobody was trying to swap two gigabytes to these drives as that would have been 10 times their capacity....