Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?

  • kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade
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    1 year ago

    But the swap partition is only used when you run out of ram right? If I have enough ram I should not worry about that.

      • jet@hackertalks.com
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        1 year ago

        100% this. An aggressive memory manager could preemptively write everything from memory to swap even though it’s still in memory, in case it has to evict it quickly.