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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by bradknowles on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:40PM (#19332756)
If you ever hit actual swapping, then your system performance is already way past the point of no return.

In modern systems, paging is okay. But not swapping.

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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by 781 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:51PM (#19332870)
In even more modern systems, with NVMe NAND storage, even swapping is ok.
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