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[–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Hello I would like to torture my SSD's FTL because I left three Electron apps open"

If you don't actually need the swap, Linux isn't going to make use of swap. If you need the swap, then you'd probably rather use it than have the OOM killer take out a process.

My desktop has plenty of swap available, but is using none of it, because the system isn't under memory pressure.

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