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* <translate><!--T:21--> The only downside to having more swap space than you will actually use, is the disk space you will be reserving for it cannot be used for application or system data.</translate> | * <translate><!--T:21--> The only downside to having more swap space than you will actually use, is the disk space you will be reserving for it cannot be used for application or system data.</translate> | ||
<translate><!--T:22--> The "diminishing returns" means that if you need more swap space than twice your RAM size, you would be better off adding more RAM as Hard Disk Drive (HDD) access is about 10³ slower then RAM access, so something that would take 1 second, suddenly takes more | <translate><!--T:22--> The "diminishing returns" means that if you need more swap space than twice your RAM size, you would be better off adding more RAM as Hard Disk Drive (HDD) access is about 10³ slower then RAM access, so something that would take 1 second, suddenly takes more than 15 minutes! And on a Solid State Drive (SSD) the same operation that took 1 second in RAM will still take about 1 minute on that SSD!</translate> | ||
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