• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Isn’t that the entire point of swap? If you’re only gonna access that memory once a month what’s wrong with it swapping to disk but becoming ready within seconds when you go to use it?

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      16 hours ago

      Dude, Windows swaps like it’s its job.

      The job of swap is to be used after the RAM is full or is about to be full. It’s not to be used instead of the RAM.

      I bet SSDs were a huge freaking performance boost for Windows generally speaking because of the way it swaps.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes but when it’s too much… The poor SSD in my 8gb laptop was constantly at 65°C because of all the activity. And it seems without reason. I would hear the warning sounds from crystaldiskinfo when “idle” in another room