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Is using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Quills@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?

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[–] kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the swap partition is only used when you run out of ram right? If I have enough ram I should not worry about that.

[–] Wyrryel@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's used much more often. How often is determined by a value called swapiness.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 1 year ago

100% this. An aggressive memory manager could preemptively write everything from memory to swap even though it's still in memory, in case it has to evict it quickly.