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I mentioned this in a response[1] to a sibling comment, but my question is more about learning what are the advantages of swap itself, other than just cheaper s
by quectophoton 7d ago
I mentioned this in a response[1] to a sibling comment, but my question is more about learning what are the advantages of swap itself, other than just cheaper slow RAM.
What does the OS do differently with swap vs RAM? What can I do with swap that I cannot do with RAM? Things like that.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670574
- mitxela 7d agoNothing besides having more of it. Apparently also hibernation, but that's more of an artificial limitation - there's no good reason a system couldn't create a hibernation file on demand.