Is using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime? - eviltoast

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

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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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.