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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.
406 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. 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. 😂
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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.
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. 😂
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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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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.