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RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 88 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 57 points 7 months ago

I hate that I kind of like this point...

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

You can set swappiness to 0

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

That's true for most people talking about swap online.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

That's exactly why we need a CD ROM based solution to explore how swap space works.../s