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minus-square𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·20 days agoRemember when they said “swap should be 2 times the amount of RAM”. Why would I waste 128 GiB of storage for nothing?
minus-squareFlexibleToast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days agoThey stopped saying that a long time ago. It became something like 2x ram until beyond 4GB then it was something more sane.
minus-squareistdaslol@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoDid 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
minus-square𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoNever have I ever heard about apps that need a swap file to operate normally.
minus-squareAnAmericanPotato@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoDocker. Only half-joking.
minus-squareistdaslol@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoMe 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
minus-squareflexicon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoYeah, your first mistake was using Windows and expecting performance.
minus-squareLaurel Raven@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoHey, “bad performance” is still a kind of performance!
Remember when they said “swap should be 2 times the amount of RAM”.
Why would I waste 128 GiB of storage for nothing?
They stopped saying that a long time ago. It became something like 2x ram until beyond 4GB then it was something more sane.
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
Never have I ever heard about apps that need a swap file to operate normally.
Docker.
Only half-joking.
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
Yeah, your first mistake was using Windows and expecting performance.
Hey, “bad performance” is still a kind of performance!