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Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality by everdrive on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:38PM (#47462339)
>Windows does a better job of managing memory/swaps

Not sure I can buy that one

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Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality by wang_li on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:59PM (#47462497)
100% of OSes are better than Linux in this regard as long as overcommit is the default.
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Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality by hunterpayne on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:39AM (#47464031)
I always turn off swap and that solves this problem. I really don't understand why it is on by default anymore. If you need swap, you are doing something very wrong somewhere else.
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Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality by subscribed on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:20PM (#47469034)
So, it depends on how much RAM do you have. Also with a swap enabled system can swap out some very rarely used memory pages, and cache some frequently used files instead - so by disabling swap you rob yourself of this opportunity :)

I have 64 GB RAM on my workstation, yet i still have swap enabled (but with lowered swappiness value).

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