@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 year agoIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?message-square29fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up154arrow-down1message-squareIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 year agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoBut the swap partition is only used when you run out of ram right? If I have enough ram I should not worry about that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•1 year agoNo, it’s used much more often. How often is determined by a value called swapiness.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year 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.
But the swap partition is only used when you run out of ram right? If I have enough ram I should not worry about that.
No, it’s used much more often. How often is determined by a value called swapiness.
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.