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by quotemstr 28 days ago
> Typically, performance drops enough that the user kills the program or reboots before the page file expands to fill the disk. And other threads here suggest there is something that will prompt users to kill programs in states like this.

Not in the age of NVMe it doesn't. Swap is fast now. Plus, at least on Linux, you can put zswap in front of the regular swap and introduce an even faster level of memory hierarchy and thereby make page-outs even more profitable.
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0x1d7 27 days ago
Swap is not fast. Faster than it was, yes, fast, no.
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swinglock 27 days ago
Windows does memory compression too.
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quotemstr 27 days ago
It's been a while since I've looked at it, but IIRC it doesn't model the compressed RAM as a special swap tier, which IMHO is a pretty elegant way to look at it.
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