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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by eru on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:39AM (#45666343)
> Swap ram by itself would be stupid but no one doing this isn’t also turning on compression.

I'm not sure what you mean here? Swapping out infrequently accesses pages to disk to make space for more disk cache makes sense with our without compression.

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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by vlovich123 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:09AM (#45670340)
Swapping out to RAM without compression is stupid - then you’re just shuffling pages around in memory. Compression is key so that you free up space. Swap to disk is separate.
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