• DevDave@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    what’s the problem? it’s not like you dump the entire contents of your system’s ram to disk any time use hibernate /s

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      Even without hibernation, data in apps you have open will end up in the swap if your system is ever RAM-constrained.

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        Generally it only happens to programs you keep running in the background and might not use for a long time that also don’t have much background activity. For example password managers.

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          It depends on what you set your swappiness to, too. I think Linux distros still have pretty aggressive defaults that swap more than they probably need to.