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by cxseven 3487 days ago
Reducing RAM usage will reduce disk activity, though, so there's that.
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0xffff2 3487 days ago
Why would that be? Unless you're frequently running out of RAM and swapping to disk, RAM usage shouldn't correlate to disk usage much, right?
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haneefmubarak 3487 days ago
Because all of that "unused" RAM in the background is actually being used by the OS for disk caching, thus reducing the overall frequency of reads.
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