have you ever used swap?
>>53556879
I have an 8gb RAM disk set up to use as a swap partition
Generally yes. I reserve 1/4 of my ram for swap.
Yes, OS X swaps frequently with only 8gb of RAM.
>>53556879
Yes. I usually put my pc to sleep after my torrents finish downloading.
>>53556879
I have more than 4GB of memory, so no.
Are we at the point where you can buy a bootleg $75 SSD and use it as swap?
I use SWAP on my router for extra RAM.
It has 64MB of RAM otherwise ,but I put a 1GB SWAP file on it so it doesnt crash every time it tries to download shit in memory.
>>53556915
>>53556939
you're retarded and dont know what SWAP is for
I typically reserve 4gb of swap on most of my Linux installations
>>53556879
zram (compressed ram) is the new swap.
swap is too slow anyway
>>53557224
I hibernate every now and then, so yes. Other than that my swap only gets written to occasionally, barely worth mentioning.
>>53557224
I believe they're joking, friend.
>>53556915
>8gb RAM disk set up to use as a swap partition
wut
>>53556915
>>53557224
>>53557340
Real talk, what's wrong with doing this?
>>53557397
>what's wrong with doing this
>>53557397
Anon, yanker of chains.
>>53556879
I got 16 gigs of ram, so I don't really need swap on my desktop. I'm not using it on my laptop atm, but might during next install.
>>53557397
Well anon, if you really don't know, swap is basically where the computer takes data from ram and moves it to disk when it needs more ram space. So putting swap on a ram disk would be pointless because it would not actually free up ram at all
>>53556915
Is swap even useful on machines with over 2GB of ram.
>>53557269
this sounds kind of legit actually
I use zram as swap.
Working pretty good.
>swap
>in the two thousandth and sixteenth year of our lord
>>53559661
I have a 16 GB swap. Get on my level.
>>53556974
am i stupid or does this make no sense at all?
I told windows device mangager to make a 4G partition, but free -h says it's 3.7
>never trust microsoft.
>>53557617
But isnt the ramdisk generally untouched when allocating memory?
I mean, thats why its set aside as a disk no?
>>53557782
I'm running 8gb on a desktop. Occasionally my workflow would be better suited to 16gb (limiting factor afterwards being disk and processor) and I rely on swap to get me through so I can continue multitasking. I really should allocate at double my RAM, as I also like to hibernate, and it's a pain hibernating when your swap space is full.
On a netbook, I have a 1gb swap partition so I can run some test software and web servers on it while still having it act as a bit of a media server. Swap space should probably be doubled here, too.
On an older server I am hosting a git repository (Gitlab). As Gitlab runs on a Ruby stack, it memory leaks like a motherfucker, and swap keeps things going until I can go in manually and fix it.
>>53559972
Anon's computer hibernates, which requires swap.
