@Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-210 months agoIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?message-square24fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?@Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-210 months agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.tradelinkfedilink2•10 months 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@Wyrryellink10•10 months agoNo, it’s used much more often. How often is determined by a value called swapiness.
minus-square@jet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglish7•10 months 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.