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minus-squareDave.@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoTo be honest I’d rather get OOM errors in my consumer OS than endless disk thrashing. At least mechanical drives were more resilient and you could hear the thrashing, as opposed to silent massive wear on your SSDs.
minus-squareCanIFishHere@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI run 32GB and I still run a swapfile. My ssd is still going after 3 years, but everything dies.
minus-squarewltr@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 minutes agoMy SSDs are like ten to 15 years old, none are dead at this point. The cargo cult of swap files trashing everything.
To be honest I’d rather get OOM errors in my consumer OS than endless disk thrashing. At least mechanical drives were more resilient and you could hear the thrashing, as opposed to silent massive wear on your SSDs.
I run 32GB and I still run a swapfile. My ssd is still going after 3 years, but everything dies.
My SSDs are like ten to 15 years old, none are dead at this point. The cargo cult of swap files trashing everything.