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    RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
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    [–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 91 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 60 points 9 months ago

    I hate that I kind of like this point...

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

    [–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

    You can set swappiness to 0

    [–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, my bad! Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

    That's true for most people talking about swap online.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

    Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

    That's exactly why we need a CD ROM based solution to explore how swap space works.../s