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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

but that's not what's happening. processes do actually get removed from RAM, and when they are needed they are very slow until they are loaded back. the system thinks it's more valuable to have that memory be filesystem cache

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    If true then Linux is a decade behind windows and macOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    tbh windows was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%

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