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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by fomine3 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:59PM (#25205915)
Bottleneck for swap in/out must be SSD, not memory. Also its SSD isn't fast compared to other NVMe SSDs in both throughput and IOPS. Possibly latency is great thanks to integrated SSD controller onto M1 but I don't think it changes the game.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by amelius on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:40AM (#25207814)
Is a SSD suitable for swap, given its limited number of write cycles?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by foldr on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:12AM (#25208025)
When I looked into this, the information I found suggested that modern consumer SSDs generally have more than enough write cycles to spare for any plausible use case. Possibly this was more of an issue five to ten years ago.
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