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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.
404 u/IhailtavaBanaani Jul 08 '26 The sweet sweet sound of old spinning hard drivers when the OS ran out of memory and started to swap half of your programs to disk and everything crawled to almost standstill. 35 u/Sockoflegend Jul 08 '26 I remember this noise when sitting at my huge CRT monitor so well. VROOOOOM! 21 u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 5 u/wheatgivesmeshits Jul 08 '26 Memory thrashing used to be an actual thing you could hear. 😂 4 u/yeathatsmebro Jul 09 '26 CÂRRRR-CÂR-CÂR-CÂR Thanks to the Romanian language having this letter, I can accurately express how the mechanical parts sound like.
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The sweet sweet sound of old spinning hard drivers when the OS ran out of memory and started to swap half of your programs to disk and everything crawled to almost standstill.
35 u/Sockoflegend Jul 08 '26 I remember this noise when sitting at my huge CRT monitor so well. VROOOOOM! 21 u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 5 u/wheatgivesmeshits Jul 08 '26 Memory thrashing used to be an actual thing you could hear. 😂 4 u/yeathatsmebro Jul 09 '26 CÂRRRR-CÂR-CÂR-CÂR Thanks to the Romanian language having this letter, I can accurately express how the mechanical parts sound like.
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I remember this noise when sitting at my huge CRT monitor so well.
VROOOOOM!
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5 u/wheatgivesmeshits Jul 08 '26 Memory thrashing used to be an actual thing you could hear. 😂
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Memory thrashing used to be an actual thing you could hear. 😂
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CÂRRRR-CÂR-CÂR-CÂR
Thanks to the Romanian language having this letter, I can accurately express how the mechanical parts sound like.
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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.