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Re:DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’ by pritambaral on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:09AM (#19336589)
> is taken away forcefully

To disk. Waiting for the memory a badly behaved app overzealously ate up without using to finish flushing to disk before being able to use it is worse than simply having the memory readily available. This is why I always disable swap, opting to let bad processes die, sometimes even pulling the trigger myself.

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