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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Will disabling the swap file fix that?

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't fully disable swap on Windows, it can break things :-/

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know that, that used to not be the case.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Maybe it has changed again, but in the past I gave it a try. When 16 GB was a lot. Then when 32 GB was a lot. I always thought "Not filling up the RAM anyway, might as well disable it!"

Yeah, no, Windows is not a fan. Like you get random "running out of memory" errors, even though with 16 GB I still had 3-4 GB free RAM available.

Some apps require the page file, same as crash dumps. So I just set it to a fixed value (like 32 GB min + max) on my 64 GB machine.

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago

If not, just mount your swap file in RAM lmao