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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Would be nice if I could force programs to use more ram though. I actually have 100GB of DDR4 my desktop. I bought it over a year ago when DDR4 was unloved and cheap. But I have tried to force programs to not be offloading as much. Like Firefox, I hate that I have the ram but it's still unloading webpages in the background and won't use more than 6GB ever.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Will disabling the swap file fix that?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Don't fully disable swap on Windows, it can break things :-/

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't know that, that used to not be the case.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Maybe it has changed again, but in the past I gave it a try. When 16 GB was a lot. Then when 32 GB was a lot. I always thought "Not filling up the RAM anyway, might as well disable it!"

    Yeah, no, Windows is not a fan. Like you get random "running out of memory" errors, even though with 16 GB I still had 3-4 GB free RAM available.

    Some apps require the page file, same as crash dumps. So I just set it to a fixed value (like 32 GB min + max) on my 64 GB machine.

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