• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      2 hours ago

      That’s not true. Linux by default also moves stuff to swap way earlier. Swap is not just a fallback when you run out of RAM. That is why I think Zram is the best. My system can swap as much as it wants to.

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        11 minutes ago

        Linux swappiness is at least easier to configure + I haven’t really noticed it happen on anything with enough RAM to do the job it’s doing.

        My 8 GB Thinkpad will swap quite a bit running PyCharm, docker and Firefox on KDE Plasma. My 32 GB desktop has near-zero swap usage and it has even more shit running at all