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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by yankcrime on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:30AM (#25109084)
Don't do this. Disabling swap is bad idea: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by Cloudef on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:40AM (#25110222)
In practice the benefits of swap mentioned in that article almost never happen on desktop use. I used to use swap on my last install and it was pretty much never used. I don't bother with swap anymore. Server may be different game though.
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by account42 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:49AM (#25122649)
Not really. While there are still problems without swap, all swap does is move that problem further away while slowing down some things in the meantime.
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