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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 16:10:51 JST 翠星石

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   • JollyWizard
   @HonkHonkBoom @JollyWizard Swap files and/or swap partitions write exhaust SSD's at around the same rate, although a swap file can cause write multiplication with poor filesystems.
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     JollyWizard (jollywizard@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 16:10:52 JST JollyWizard

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     @HonkHonkBoom apparently the standard practice has become to use a swapfile instead, with the advantage for a partition is that it can be shared across distros.
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     HonkHonkBoom (honkhonkboom@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 16:10:52 JST HonkHonkBoom

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     @JollyWizard Thanks for the lead, that was plenty to find the right direction, i see the reasoning/excuse they used, swap files destroy SSDs, but i have a 256gb nvme on a pcie card just to be destroyed, it's there to use as swap or cache, and i quit caching my mechanical drives when they got relegated to pure archival use ... but primocache with a huge nvme cache and some ram made it damned hard to tell you were ever accessing a mechanical drive.
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     HonkHonkBoom (honkhonkboom@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 16:10:53 JST HonkHonkBoom
     So is linux swap partition just not a thing anymore? seems like none of the distros set it up during install anymore, just use zram or whatever and then the OS just randomly closes your programs when ya run out.., This doesn't see like a step forward to me, guess i should go dig for any forum remnants that weren't destroyed by the discord disease, see if i can learn what happened in the years i was away from linux..