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hypertown@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

It's fine until you run out of disk space

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It's fine until you run out of disk space

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hypertown@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Saganaki@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    https://imgur.com/j0S32zL.jpg

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      wait, didn’t some tech youtubers like LTT try using cloud storage as swap/RAM? afaik they failed because of latency

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        This guy used ICMP data payload as a hard drive. It kinda worked.

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          I remember using ICMP data to bypass my high school’s firewall. TCP and UDP were very locked down, but they allowed pings. It was slow though - I think I managed to get a few KB per sec. Maybe there’s faster/fancier firewall bypass methods these days. This was back in the 2000s when an entire school would have a single OC-1 fiber connection.

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      It will crash as soon as it needs to touch the swap due to the relatively insane latency difference.

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        So use a small area in memory as cache

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          the infinite memory paradox. quaint. (lol)

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            It’s just a NUMA architecture. Linux can handle it.

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      deleted by creator

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        It’ll never be fast enough. An SSD is orders of magnitude slower than RAM, which is orders of magnitude slower than cache. Internet speed is orders of magnitude slower than the slowest of hard drives, which is still way too slow to be used for anything that needs memory relatively soon.

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      The image doesn’t load.

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        11 months ago

        I posted that 10 months ago.

        That being said, it seems to still work for me.

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      I feel like this might be a giant gaping security risk.

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        Obviously you should set up device mapper to encrypt the gdrive device then put the swap on the encrypted mapper device.

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          If your kernel isn’t using 90% of your CPU resources, are you really even using it to it’s full potential? /s

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      Imagine doing this on a dial-up 56K modem

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        A:\SPICYMEMES\MODEMSOUND.WAV

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