uszo165@futurology.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agoWhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothingwww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareCanIFishHere@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoYour friend has disabled the swap file. Never a good idea.
minus-squareDave.@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoTo be honest I’d rather get OOM errors in my consumer OS than endless disk thrashing. At least mechanical drives were more resilient and you could hear the thrashing, as opposed to silent massive wear on your SSDs.
minus-squareCanIFishHere@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI run 32GB and I still run a swapfile. My ssd is still going after 3 years, but everything dies.
Your friend has disabled the swap file. Never a good idea.
To be honest I’d rather get OOM errors in my consumer OS than endless disk thrashing. At least mechanical drives were more resilient and you could hear the thrashing, as opposed to silent massive wear on your SSDs.
I run 32GB and I still run a swapfile. My ssd is still going after 3 years, but everything dies.