cannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoStop Doing Swap Partitionslemmy.worldimagemessage-square125linkfedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up110arrow-down1imageStop Doing Swap Partitionslemmy.worldcannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square125linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agobut 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
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 days agoIf true then Linux is a decade behind windows and macOS.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agotbh windows 10 was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%
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
If true then Linux is a decade behind windows and macOS.
tbh windows 10 was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%