| 20 Apr 2025 |
 K900 | Cache will be released as needed | 06:15:46 |
| K900 | That's why it's cache | 06:15:49 |
| K900 | So was it one of your extensions that was causing the leak? | 06:16:03 |
 Andrew | But what about swap? Surely with a few more days it will increase. Now it's at 7.35 GiB. Or is it if I remove swap, the "used" will not exceed? Like, how does it treat swap? As a spare space to dump more stuff, or does it use absolute minimum to function? | 15:29:08 |
| Andrew | Well, I removed 4 more extensions https://matrix.to/#/!XQQVyIbcAcHFvzmcTl:nixos.org/$zFjjK3ZC8jRObtXlp2gHKZrlEg9kQCqodiy8d24uNU4?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de | 15:29:17 |
| Andrew | * Well, I removed 4 more extensions https://matrix.to/#/!XQQVyIbcAcHFvzmcTl:nixos.org/$zFjjK3ZC8jRObtXlp2gHKZrlEg9kQCqodiy8d24uNU4?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de, so I guess some of them were bad. | 15:29:46 |
| Andrew | I really hope it's not the input method one, since it's the most practical and why I now suffer switching between languages. | 15:31:06 |
| Andrew | But I mean, if it leaks, surely you can fix that, right? | 15:31:31 |
| K900 | That's not how it works | 15:31:15 |
| K900 | Swap is where things you don't use are dumped from memory | 15:31:26 |
| K900 | * Swap is where things you don't use are dumped to from memory | 15:31:29 |
| K900 | Yeah | 15:31:38 |
| Andrew | well, yes, but are they dumped because there is more free space for that? or will this not happen if swap is disabled? | 15:35:40 |
| Andrew | * well, yes, but are they dumped because there is more free space for that? or will this not happen if swap is disabled? | 15:35:49 |
| Andrew | * well, yes, but are they dumped because there is more free space for that? will the same amount of memory be allocated if swap was disabled? | 15:36:25 |
| K900 | If it doesn't happen, things will be kept in RAM | 15:36:15 |
| Andrew | So my RAM usage would be 13.8 GiB by now? | 15:38:10 |
| K900 | Swap should not count to your RAM usage | 15:38:21 |
| Andrew | it should not? | 15:38:52 |
| K900 | Generally no | 15:39:02 |
| K900 | It's another thing | 15:39:04 |
| K900 | That is used in addition to RAM | 15:39:08 |
| Andrew | I always thought it's an extension of RAM. | 15:39:14 |
| K900 | It is, but it also isn't | 15:39:24 |
| Andrew | * I always thought it's an extension of RAM, because you don't have enough of it. | 15:39:29 |
| Andrew | bruh | 15:39:34 |
| K900 | Swap is basically a second storage space | 15:40:22 |
| K900 | Where things that are not actively used in memory get offloaded ot | 15:40:36 |
| K900 | * Where things that are not actively used in memory get offloaded to | 15:40:37 |
| Andrew | I fear that if I were to remove swap now, it will populate ram and my system will choke to death again. Or very soon, since 13.8 GiB for idle system is way too much. | 15:41:49 |
