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[–] 165 points 2 years ago (25 children)

I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

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  • [–] 91 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh, my bad! Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Sup, that would actually be possible.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Anything can be ram if you wait long enough

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