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69 points by mkesper 4 days ago · 2 comments

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alright2565 3 hours ago

I've been enjoying this renewed focus on memory efficiency. On my personal system, I've noticed that even with loads of memory, having a large swap partition really helps out when a big burst of memory demand comes up, like then running a large compile job. And that even hours or days after the memory demand is over, I still have gigabytes of memory sitting in the swap page—evidently the programs don't actually need to use that memory at all!

  • ChocolateGod 20 minutes ago

    I'm really looking forward to deviceless zswap as an easy "compress my ram" option that plays nicely with cgroups.

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