alt Hacker News> You’re basically stating that swapping is also a bad idea.
Is that a crazy thing to say? I can't recall the last time I was grateful for swap; it might've been before 2010.
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literalAardvark • today at 12:19 PM
If you've used any unreserved VM ever you're grateful for swapping.
Somewhat indirectly but still.
Try turning swap off and really find out if you’re not grateful for it. Might be fine if you’re never using all your RAM, but if you are, swap off isn’t fun and you might realize you’ve been unconsciously grateful this whole time. ;) Swap might be important for GPU usage even when not using something like greenboost, since display GPUs sometimes use system RAM to back the GPU VRAM.