Sam@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow much swap?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up134file-text
arrow-up134message-squareHow much swap?Sam@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecmeerw@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoUnused (or very rarely used) memory can also be swapped out to make more memory available for the disk cache (in the hope that having more disk cache available will save more disk accesses than the (hopefully one-time) swap-out operation).
Unused (or very rarely used) memory can also be swapped out to make more memory available for the disk cache (in the hope that having more disk cache available will save more disk accesses than the (hopefully one-time) swap-out operation).