Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-210 months agoIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-210 months agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months ago100% this. An aggressive memory manager could preemptively write everything from memory to swap even though it’s still in memory, in case it has to evict it quickly.
100% this. An aggressive memory manager could preemptively write everything from memory to swap even though it’s still in memory, in case it has to evict it quickly.