Saving ram to swap can be done with minimal impact. Helpful when you run out of memory and that 2gb app idling can be dumped right away instead of waiting for it to be copied to swap.
but that’s not what’s happening. processes do actually get removed from RAM, and when they are needed they are very slow until they are loaded back. the system thinks it’s more valuable to have that memory be filesystem cache
Saving ram to swap can be done with minimal impact. Helpful when you run out of memory and that 2gb app idling can be dumped right away instead of waiting for it to be copied to swap.
but that’s not what’s happening. processes do actually get removed from RAM, and when they are needed they are very slow until they are loaded back. the system thinks it’s more valuable to have that memory be filesystem cache
If true then Linux is a decade behind windows and macOS.
tbh windows was doing this very aggressively on my system, it was swapping like a mad man right when memory usage reached 50%