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Genuinely curious: what are you doing to be needing this?
I cannot think of any modern usecase for swap a part from hybernation
Local AI can chew it up. Wasn't able to run certain jobs on 64Gb until I switched to zswap.
What kind of token per second are you getting with your model partially on disk?
I've been using lower ram machines lately, so made me curious about if people are using things like zram with 32gb+
Compiling Librewollf with a sufficient number of jobs is a great way to eat up 32GB of RAM, and the some.
Swapping will make it slower not faster, reduce jobs?
No. Most of the build jobs are fast and small. A couple take up gigabytes at a time. Swap is on SSD anyway. Its fast enough.
I also use NixOS and GuixSD. There are cases where binary caches haven't caught up with the package definition. Situations like Librewolf, LibreOffice and kernel all compiling at the same time.
Sure I could mess around with limiting jobs and build runners... Or I could just have swap, and never worry about it again.
Just a BTRFS swapfile. I'm not worried too much about performance. I rarely hit it and most of the time i don't even need it. Until I do.
Ok, you do you. In my experience that is not how that works, but there is an argument to not worry about it if it works well enough.