Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?

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    1 year ago

    Does having swap memory damage SSDs

    Not to the point that it’s worth worrying about. Seriously. Unless you’re on something stupid like an SD card the write endurance of a SSD will be fine for the purposes of swap.

    If you’re regularly thrashing the swap it’s still fine, but maybe rethink what you’re doing anyway because there’s probably a better way