Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by qotgalaxy on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:59PM
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What if I care more about the performance of things that aren't being used right now than the things that are? I'm sick of switching to my DAW and having to listen to my drive thrash when I try to play a (say) sampler I had loaded.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by db48x on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:32AM
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Sounds like you just need more memory.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by ssl-3 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:41AM
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Just set swappiness to [say] 5, 2, 1, or even 0, and move on with your project with a system that is more reluctant to go into swap.
And maybe plan on getting more RAM.
(It's your system. You're allowed to tune it to fit your usage.)
Also: When those processes that haven't been active since boot (and which may never be active again) are swapped out, more system RAM can become available for disk caching to help performance of things that are actively being used.
And that's... that's actually putting RAM to good use, instead of letting it sit idle. That's good.
(As many are always quick to point out: Swap can't fix a perpetual memory leak. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone claim that it could.)