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sag@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap

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RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap

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sag@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

    • NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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      That way you’ll know you’ve run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

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        I hate that I kind of like this point…

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        Linux doesn’t wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

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          You can set swappiness to 0

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          Oh, my bad! Goes to show I’m not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

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            That’s true for most people talking about swap online.

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            Goes to show I’m not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

            That’s exactly why we need a CD ROM based solution to explore how swap space works…/s

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      I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this

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        someone put swap on google drive

        • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
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          Android studio was asking for more ram, what else would i do?

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            Use dropbox like any pleb would

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        https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/mount.davfs.8.html mount cloud memory as folder and put swapfile on it

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          Swap on S3. That’s brutal

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            Download more ram became possible with one simple trick)

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          Mount Cloud? Any chance I can mount Tifa instead?

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      Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod

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      I think you meant DVD-RAM.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Sup, that would actually be possible.

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          Anything can be ram if you wait long enough

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            I use my whiteboard for swap.

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              A robot that writes on the board and a camera to then read it back in

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              i’m swappin’ in ma ass ladies 😎

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            You could use a combination of printer and scanner as swap with the right driver…

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              Dangerously close to punchcards

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            Running out of Ram? Just 3D print more!

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