• cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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    15 days ago

    really scary how it just hard-freezed or mercilessly thrashes when low on memory.

    That’s what the swap partition is for?

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      15 days ago

      Hey I wanted my RGB sticks okay?! Jk hahaha.

      You’re right! I think…I don’t have a swap partition on this machine. I think I was gonna set up a swap file but that was a bit more involved post-install than I wanted to delve into at the time…

      …but I did get ZRAM working, and that’s pretty amazing! It feels like getting more RAM for free haha.

      It wasn’t the most absolutely necessary upgrade in the world, but I feel like it gives me more room to get away with dumb things and course correct in things like Blender, and might come in handy down the line since I don’t see myself upgrading much for a while.