sudo apt install systemd-zram-generator
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sudo mkswap /swapfile 64G
Problem?
Yeah, storage prices also suck :-(
buys cloud storage
uses it as swap space
This is so cursed that I want to try it out.
There was a dude somewhere on the internet that used Google drive for swap space. I'll see if I can dig it up....
Edit: link.
You like cursed?
Way back in the mists of time I got a 32MB (not a typo) upgrade for an 8MB computer. In total: 40MB.
Since I knew it ran fine with just the 8MB, I set up a RAM disk of 32MB and put the Windows swap file in it. Windows absolutely insisted (and maybe still does) that there be a swap file, so why not put that back in RAM?
It worked perfectly, but that memory was better used for other things, so the cursed setup didn't last all that long.
Edits: Typo city baby.
I would have loved to have 32 MB RAM. I was stuck with a 486 with 16 MB RAM and 600ish MB HDD until 2003 or so, because we couldn't afford to upgrade. I think I upgraded to a second-hand Pentium 3 at that point, and upgraded the RAM with mismatched RAM modules (different brands, different capacities) salvaged from systems my school was throwing away.
A simpler time. I miss it sometimes. Neither me (as a teenager) nor my parents had any money, but I did have enough free time to learn how to code and play shareware games. It gave me something to do that didn't cost much money. Over 20 years later and I'm still coding.
Your comment
(not a typo)
Looks inside
Typo city baby.
You should have seen it when the typos were still in it. Now try to figure out whether the parenthetical was there before the edits.
Ah i didn't see it before edits, but still a hit funny to see it
Midst*
You had me concerned for a second, but "mists of time" shows up on Wiktionary (easier to be wrong), Merriam Webster's site (likely to be right) or the Oxford English Dictionary (practically canonical), whereas "midst(s) of time" does not.
Collins Dictionary and Dictionary.com don't list either, but the existence of the former in other places would seem to suggest that that's the right one.
"Mists of time" is correct.
"Solamente aquí para 'mist' el tiempo."
- Misters of time
Let me know how it goes, lmao
My bet is that simple CLI apps will kind of work but having a graphic environment would just freeze.
Inngh...need...more...SWAP.
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Plz seed I'm at 93% I want RAM plz /s
What's peoples issue? I've been talking to AI and had my agent code me some more RAM. Unlock your PCs power for free and follow me for more tips.
/s
I downloaded more RAM in the 90s. It was a product called RAM Doubler for the Macintosh. At that time memory had to be pre-allocated for applications through a setting in the resource fork, always used exactly the amount you set, and couldn't grow beyond that. It was static, making it hard to run multiple programs simultaneously. RAM Doubler did wonders to work around that OS limitation.
There was a virtual swap space program that I downloaded in the Windows 95-98 era that did something similar. Worked reasonably well, if slowly, but everything was slower back then with computers.
Look, I'm not saying I'd gleefully burn Nvidia to the ground. I'm just saying I wouldn't help put out the fire.
I’d piss on nVidia, though.
Especially if I had a massive amount of asparagus.
It’s not likely to do much with a good fire, it, eh, it’s gonna make them smell nasty.
Use with caution.
Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what's worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.
Just FYI, don't double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.
You heard it here first folks, straight from the horses mouth: it's all this guys fault the world sucks.
Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.
You know who else wanted more RAM? Harambe. I hope you're fucking happy now
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https://downloadmoreram.com/ for those who miss the reference (and btw, it's safe to click the download button, it doesn't do anything, it's just a good old school joke website)
I got my extra RAM on a floppy! SoftRAM95 baby 😎
$ zramctl
NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle 62.6G 2.8G 972M 1011.4M [SWAP]
Already did
Based zramctl. Makes my 8GB RAM system run like I had 12 GB, which is quite significant in this new internet world where opening a second tab in a web browser costs almost 600 MB.
What's the use case over RAM or disk swap? It's compressed but faster than SSD? Hmm. That could help in distinct use cases...
Yes, it's basically faster than disk swap but uses some CPU cycles. The compression algorithms involved are very fast on modern CPUs so in some sense it's "free RAM".
I set mine to almost 1:1 my physical RAM, because the way it works is that the zram disk size (62.6G there) is the amount of uncompressed data allowed on it, and the compression on real-world data is almost always at least 50% -- so if the zram device fills up, it'll be using something like 32G of physical memory. I'm yet to hit real-world usecases that would have tested these limits though, and the defaults are much more conservative.
At this point I'm not even above buying a PC/laptop from Amazon, pulling the RAM then returning the whole thing...
DiskDoubler and DriveSpace vibes
Funny thing is, memory compression is now built into the Mac’s OS.
We back to the 80's baby!
I would down load massive Ram. And then I would download a Car!!!
Once you've downloaded a massive Ram, your next download should be a massive Sheep, so you can create your own supply of fresh Rams.
I'll image and share my swap partition, if anyone's interested
I downloaded more RAM and now my pc is screaming in Russian
You mean our pc comrade…
zram
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