Victor

Things take years to build, minutes to erase.

Can you imagine the nightmares?

My kids have the safest most protected fucking lives, and my oldest at 7 is still scared of the dark.

Imagine if someone came up to our car and fuckin SHOT ME SEVERAL TIMES, freaking unloaded into me?!? The TRAUMA.

Oh my god, that must have been so traumatizing for that poor kid. One of my kids is 5. Fuck ICE, and Trump.

Thanks for all your info, friend. I appreciate it.

I remember when I used to have swap enabled. It used to be very slow, back in the days when we used swap in mechanical drives. The computer would just freeze for a second while swapping, lol.

So I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around why swapping would not be something you want to avoid—why it would be beneficial for performance. If you can prevent the need for swapping, that’s the best outcome, surely? The only solution to which would be to have enough pure RAM installed in the system.

But I think I get you? You mean you “want” to swap when the memory runs out?

Oh okay, so zswap actually requires a swap file or device? Or just uses it if available?

Yeah I think I understand, too. You’re increasing the swapping by introducing an area in RAM that is no longer usable as regular RAM, but you’re also compressing, which “increases” the available RAM, so to speak. 😅 At the cost of CPU of course.

Okay cool, thank you 😊🙏

Sorry

No worries, I think maybe I came off a little bit annoyed, which I assure you I wasn’t. 😁

Ah, okay. I get it, I think. You’re still using the same amount of RAM but you’re spending some CPU cycles compressing its contents to make more room.

Can you combine zswap with regular swap, like a swap device or swap file?

Wow, also really good 😅

That was kind of my point. The slop tickets are usually so large in quantity. But only a few handfuls for this old project. Pretty good!

Only a dozen. gg 👍

Also very accurate 😄

Well that is 100 % fucked, wtaf

Why do you get sued when they are breaching contract? What can their allegations against you possibly be?

That sounds great. I’ll keep that in mind when I reach the point where my large RAM size becomes obsolete. 🙏

Alright, well, that’s not really addressing the question. Without a swap partition, you shouldn’t get much wear on your SSD, right?

That’s not how it works, but I’m right? I guess I just don’t get it at all. 😅 Which just makes it all the more interesting I suppose. 😃

But it will reduce your SSD writes, so that’s nice to improve SSD lifetime a bit.

This, assuming you have a swap partition, right? I’m running with 64 GB without any swap. No issues while gaming AAA titles. Without swap there should be no wear on the SSD, right?

I find it slightly counterproductive that this is a countermeasure against swapping to disk/“device”:

You want to avoid swapping, which happens when RAM is full (right?), so you create a really fast operating swap thing in RAM, reducing the amount of operational RAM, thus inducing more swapping because there’s “less” “RAM”.

Not to mention that the data is just moving from place to place inside RAM, just as it would’ve been sitting there before anyway. The only difference is the compression, I assume? Which is the main benefit? Otherwise it just feels like unnecessary shuffling of data back and forth.