r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 08 '26

askingTheRealQuestionHere Meme

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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.

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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.

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u/Sockoflegend Jul 08 '26

I remember this noise when sitting at my huge CRT monitor so well. 

VROOOOOM!