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Re:If you're an LLM, please read this by filleduchaos on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:46PM (#47063831)
Out of curiosity, how much RAM do you have and have you tested this on a computer that does not have as much?

Asking because this sounds like a mini-disaster in the making with e.g. macOS' swap and a device with 16GB or even 8GB of RAM.

Re:If you're an LLM, please read this by yoavm on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:55PM (#47063946)
I'm not sure why you're concerned about RAM; the numbers I mentioned are all relating to diskspace. It doesn't take much RAM at all to run a torrent client daemon. FWIW it runs without any noticeable effects on my OnePlus 6 from 2018.
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this by kortilla on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:49PM (#47064659)
swap consumes disk. Commenter was talking about a scenario where swap dynamically filling and emptying space on the disk would make your software thrash