Does it actually work?

Posted Apr 14, 2025 10:52 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Does it actually work? by farnz
Parent article: Three ways to rework the swap subsystem

It definitely plays tricks with pushing processed to swap and back.

One way to experience “a last straw breaks the camel's back” performance issue, that plagues Linux, on Windows – is to overfill both memory and swap, too (may only do that with “permanent”, fixed size swap… that's not a default Windows setup)

When Windows may no longer “push out” some “victim” processes to swap then it starts behaving like Linux and, eventually, freezes, too.

But I have found out that adding more swap to Linux doesn't help: it may take 20 minutes to switch to a text console and then you can not login… even if there are plenty of swap left unused.