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uwu on Feb 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do we really need swap on modern systems?

it never works for me on windows

it just slows my system down to a crawl, requiring me to force a reboot

it probably depends on your hardware

and if i disable the pagefile, windows update stops working and at 75% memory usage it starts panicing and closing programs

leereeves on Feb 24, 2017 [–]

With an SSD it only slows down my system enough that I know I need to free up some memory.

But it allows me to save, exit a program, or close a tab, without losing any work.

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