In defence of swap: common misconceptions

Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by burnte on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:52AM (#16149197)

"Very few people on this thread read and understood the article."

I started to read the article, and then thought, "I know this, who doesn't know this?" and stopped.

"The point is making better use of the RAM you do have by taking pages you'll almost never touch and spilling them to disk so that there's more room in RAM for pages you will touch."

Exactly. Who with any technical experience in this day and age doesn't understand that. Are there really people trying to argue against swap?

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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by quotemstr on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:59AM (#16149226)

> Exactly. Who with any technical experience in this day and age doesn't understand that

You're on a site infamous for the comment "I switch to Node when I want to be close to the metal".

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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by Agentlien on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:56AM (#16149792)

Is this a joke or was there actually such a comment? If so, can you link it?

To someone like me, who usually lives somewhere between C++ and shader code, it sounds a bit too strange to be true.

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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by viraptor on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:27AM (#16149879)

I think this was the origin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383

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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by d0mine on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:34AM (#16149894)

In theory swap is useful, in practice it can be less so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16147634

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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by burnte on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:51PM (#16192125)

If I hit my thumb with a hammer, that doesn't mean the hammer isn't useful. The edge cases with swap are also entirely useless arguments against swap.

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