• Yote.zipOPEnglish
      90•1 year ago
      spoilers for how it works in the video:

      Sadly it just crashes immediately because Google has measures in place to prevent this behavior, and the rest of the video is an ELI5 on swap space.

      • Rikudou_SageEnglish
        41•1 year ago

        Thanks! I hate watching a whole video for something that could be a paragraph at most.

          • Rikudou_SageEnglish
            17•1 year ago

            Very much possible, but I’m aware of what swap is and how does it work. That’s my problem with videos in general - if it was an article, I can easily skim through the parts I know and read only parts that interest me.

            • @average650@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10•1 year ago

              I totally understand. Articles are much better at actually finding information. Videos are more entertaining though. There’s nothing in that video that really couldn’t have been in an article.

      • @Flicsmo@rammy.siteEnglish
        13•1 year ago

        Thank you! I was curious but not ten-minute-video curious. I wonder if there’s a cloud provider that doesn’t block this sort of usage - could it work with onedrive/dropbox/etc?

        • @ThiccFurLizzy@lemm.eeEnglish
          9•1 year ago

          The video also explains why it doesn’t really work; the latency is so large, the system is better off getting the files from local storage.

          • @Flicsmo@rammy.siteEnglish
            4•1 year ago

            I kind of assumed that haha, this wouldn’t be something you’d do for practical purposes. Still fun though!

  • @jrandiny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    My ISP: what a wonderful thing you have there. I will definitely not charge you an arm and a leg for the bandwidth

      • tal
        4•1 year ago

        I vaguely recall that Linux has support for multiple tiers of paging space, with you able to assign priority.

        googles

        Yeah, swapon has a -p parameter`.

        https://linux.die.net/man/8/swapon

        -p, --priority priority
    Specify the priority of the swap device. priority is a value between 0 and 32767. Higher numbers indicate higher priority. See swapon(2) for a full description of swap priorities. Add pri=value to the option field of /etc/fstab for use with swapon -a.

        So you shovel the priority below your local paging space, might be okay for some workloads.

        I dunno if there’s any system to predictively migrate data between tiers of paging space, though. If it only pulls into main memory from low-priority paging space and does so a page at a time, that’s gonna be painful.

        Also, this definitely increases the security risks associated with having sensitive material being paged out beyond the usual “someone might get your laptop and look at the paging space when it’s off if the paging space isn’t encrypted and you’re using software that doesn’t lock security-critical data in memory” stuff.