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Stop Doing Swap Partitions (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 weeks ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51845693

Credit to @ryanc@infosec.exchange

I just did the graphic

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Remember when they said “swap should be 2 times the amount of RAM”.

Why would I waste 128 GiB of storage for nothing?

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

They stopped saying that a long time ago. It became something like 2x ram until beyond 4GB then it was something more sane.

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[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Did the same thing but some apps are designed with that in mind and I had worse performance so had to do a swap file again

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Never have I ever heard about apps that need a swap file to operate normally.

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[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 19 points 2 weeks ago

Docker.

Only half-joking.

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[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Me neither but creating one fixed my performance issues so I figured that was the issue. TBF it was a pagefile under windows so it might be a windows specific quirk but the main point still stands

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[–] flexicon@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Yeah, your first mistake was using Windows and expecting performance.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, "bad performance" is still a kind of performance!

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 point 2 weeks ago

That's why whenever I've upgraded PC I always tried to double or more than double the amount of RAM my last PC had. So this last upgrade I went from 16 GiB to 64 GiB. DDR4 though. I doubt I'll be able to double it next time with these prices though.

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