tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.

To be clear, I don’t blame the poster of this comment at all for the content of their post – this is accepted as “common knowledge” by a lot of Linux sysadmins and is probably one of the most likely things that you will hear from one if you ask them to talk about swap. It is unfortunately also, however, a misunderstanding of the purpose and use of swap, especially on modern systems.

  • @voodooattack
    15•5 months ago

    data compression by nature incurs dataloss

    What? It’s not a jpeg file. It’s a lossless compression algorithm.

    • @AnUnusualRelic
      4•5 months ago

      Speak for yourself, my compression algorithm works by discarding every third byte. I figure it’s good enough for most use cases.