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

  • emptyother@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I did calculate it once on an older samsung drive. If you write multiple terabytes every day, you will cross samsungs estimated lifetime in 3 years.

    I have no idea how much data a swap partition move per day but it can’t be near that much?

    • kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • jetA
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          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.