Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by Tenoke on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:21PM
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Maybe because nvme is more common now? Last time I had swap was a few years ago now and every time I'd enter it, it'd be so slow as to be hard to even fix it. Since I've had no swap I've had a couple of times when docker or whatever just crashes instead and that's it but possibly with my current nvme swap wouldn't be too awful if it gets used.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by kelnos on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:53AM
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Nah, I have a swap partition on an nvme drive, and I still get several minutes of unusability when I run out of RAM and low-to-out of swap, while the kernel takes its sweet time deciding what process to kill. It can get pretty frustrating, and sometimes I just don't feel like waiting and reboot. It doesn't happen often (possibly because I've learned to kill things like IntelliJ when I'm not actively using them), but when it does, it's super annoying.
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
by est31 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:45PM
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Yeah it can be due to nvme, because then it's at least somewhat responsive. Ran into an OOM situation with a newer computer of mine that has an NVME and I could close the offending electron application easily.