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In defence of swap: common misconceptions (chrisdown.name)
submitted 1 year ago by agilob@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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To be clear, I don't blame the poster of this comment at all for the content of their post – this is accepted as "common knowledge" by a lot of Linux sysadmins and is probably one of the most likely things that you will hear from one if you ask them to talk about swap. It is unfortunately also, however, a misunderstanding of the purpose and use of swap, especially on modern systems.

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

data compression by nature incurs dataloss

What? It’s not a jpeg file. It’s a lossless compression algorithm.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself, my compression algorithm works by discarding every third byte. I figure it's good enough for most use cases.

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

It’s a lossless compression algorithm.

if so that's pretty dope!