@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-22 years 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-22 years agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 years 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•2 years agoNo, it’s used much more often. How often is determined by a value called swapiness.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years 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.