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In defence of swap: common misconceptions (chrisdown.name)
2 points by cdown on Jan 9, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Very nice piece.

"Swap is primarily a mechanism for equality of reclamation, not for emergency 'extra memory'. Swap is not what makes your application slow – your lack of physical memory is what makes your application slow."




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