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Originally Posted by PeterT
Something I *ALWAYS* wonder is why people always mention adding more RAM to Windows 64; surely it should be sufficient to ensure that the page file is allowed to grow as is needed; I'm not sure as to why RAM is needed as opposed to virtual memory.
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Swapping is just
really, really slow, persistent RAM.
I actually had a use for swap space recently... I was trying to compile and link a huge program that required more RAM than I have.
Really slow compile times are better than a straight-up OutOfMemoryError.
It's a pity I'd have to boot into a liveCD and repartition the swap partition, since BTRFS doesn't (yet) support swapfiles.
But you usually do not want to suffer severe speed penalties, which is why usually no one suggests it as a practical solution.