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[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 165 points 9 months ago

I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 91 points 9 months ago

That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 60 points 9 months ago

I hate that I kind of like this point...

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

You can set swappiness to 0

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 points 9 months ago

Oh, my bad! Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

That's true for most people talking about swap online.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Goes to show I'm not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

That's exactly why we need a CD ROM based solution to explore how swap space works.../s

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 38 points 9 months ago

I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 56 points 9 months ago

someone put swap on google drive

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 39 points 9 months ago

Android studio was asking for more ram, what else would i do?

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 9 months ago

Use dropbox like any pleb would

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago
[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 9 months ago
[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Download more ram became possible with one simple trick)

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

Mount Cloud? Any chance I can mount Tifa instead?

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod

[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 25 points 9 months ago
[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 9 months ago

Sup, that would actually be possible.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 31 points 9 months ago

Anything can be ram if you wait long enough

[-] moody 13 points 9 months ago

I use my whiteboard for swap.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

A robot that writes on the board and a camera to then read it back in

[-] grubders@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

i'm swappin' in ma ass ladies ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

You could use a combination of printer and scanner as swap with the right driver...

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Dangerously close to punchcards

[-] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Running out of Ram? Just 3D print more!

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