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kevin_thibedeau 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)

I haven't used swap for 15 years. You have to be judicious about heavy app usage with only 16GiB. With 32GiB, I've never triggered OOM.

aidenn0 8 months ago [–]

If you never trigger OOM, then you can basically only benefit from enabling a modest amount of swap.

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