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Or be a proper computer user and have a full drive on its own dedicated bus for swap. There is literally no point in time where a full swap drive is less perfor
by lightedman 17d ago
Or be a proper computer user and have a full drive on its own dedicated bus for swap. There is literally no point in time where a full swap drive is less performant or useful than swap directories or swap files (and swap files are a relic of the 90s when a single application would need gobs of virtual memory.)
Funny watching someone advocate going back to something that sucked when we have far more performant hardware today which makes most of the other stuff wholly irrelevant.
- jenders 17d agoI’m not advocating for anything but for distros to stop recommending swap partitions. I advocate for right-sizing your hardware to predicable workloads and not using swap at all. On your pet servers or desktops where the workload is experimental or wildly unpredictable, swap files make more sense over partitions.
- lightedman 16d ago"I advocate for right-sizing your hardware to predicable workloads and not using swap at all." You do realize in the current semiconductor-short code-bloat-heavy economy we're in right now that your advocation would be prohibitively expensive for many people, yes? At least, the gaming community would basically need to be grabbing $5K systems just because of garbage AI companies and crappy inefficient 'AI' upscaling algorithms with garbage engines that insist on doing intensive rendering optimization and upscaling on low-res models when simply rendering the regular model is faster (I'm looking square at you, UE5.) You know, that kind of thing. Plus the open world streaming, yea that's about already equal to a massive swapfile just for world data. I think your advocation is very short on vision given current realities.