Cure to Ram-pocalypse

[methos]

I know some of you on this forum are well versed in the linux/computer manipulation space and might already know this method, but for those who don't.

Because megatech corporation are pushing AI into everything and everyone, they need ram to process all the operations the AI needs to function and this has caused RAM prices to get ridiculously high over the past few months [Rampocalypse Overview]. This is made it harder if you have a new computer (which I do) to have a lot of RAM on it (I have only 16GB)

I tried to launch Ck3 yesterday while having my browser windows open and this overloaded my RAM causing the launcher to crash. The same friend whos Thinkpad broke that I mentioned in another thread told me about swapspace. [Swapspace], downloadable in AUR package, is a virtual RAM manager. Basically how it works is that you assign a disk partition to SWAP and then swapspace uses this DISK for RAM, which I think is crazy.

In this ss, the RAM in swap space is circled in blue. The way swapspace works is that the ram is 'backup' meaning its only used up when all the other available ram is used.

Here I ran a RAM stress test on my computer and when the total mem was used it, it switched to swap meaning I effectively now have 40-45 GB of ram.

Installation note:

The first time I tried to install swapspace it corrupted my root somehow and I had to create a new partition from windows to install linux on.

 

[Memento Mori]

It's great, makes efficient use of limited ram

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

Just download more RAM.

 

[MelaninWarlord]

Ram is a good indian name

 

[Ishmael]

Hmm. I literally had a thought akin to this recently; Why don't I just buy an NVME hub and a bunch of 256GB SSDs and figure out a way to configure them in software to function as 'RAM'? Lo and behold, you have shown me how.

 

[deaf_judger]

Hmm. I literally had a thought akin to this recently; Why don't I just buy an NVME hub and a bunch of 256GB SSDs and figure out a way to configure them in software to function as 'RAM'? Lo and behold, you have shown me how.

Unfortunately, this is a shit idea.
1) RAM is designed to be written and erased alot more than SSDs. SSDs have a finite lifespan(so does ram, but its really high). This will wear your drive out quickly.
2) NVMe drives are ~14-16GB/s(i think). while DDR5 can easily reach 50GB/s
3) The latency will be much higher its not direct like RAM. You have to go through the USB hub or PCIe bridge

 

[deaf_judger]

I know some of you on this forum are well versed in the linux/computer manipulation space and might already know this method, but for those who don't.

Because megatech corporation are pushing AI into everything and everyone, they need ram to process all the operations the AI needs to function and this has caused RAM prices to get ridiculously high over the past few months [Rampocalypse Overview]. This is made it harder if you have a new computer (which I do) to have a lot of RAM on it (I have only 16GB)

I tried to launch Ck3 yesterday while having my browser windows open and this overloaded my RAM causing the launcher to crash. The same friend whos Thinkpad broke that I mentioned in another thread told me about swapspace. [Swapspace], downloadable in AUR package, is a virtual RAM manager. Basically how it works is that you assign a disk partition to SWAP and then swapspace uses this DISK for RAM, which I think is crazy.

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In this ss, the RAM in swap space is circled in blue. The way swapspace works is that the ram is 'backup' meaning its only used up when all the other available ram is used.

View attachment 11677

Here I ran a RAM stress test on my computer and when the total mem was used it, it switched to swap meaning I effectively now have 40-45 GB of ram.

Installation note:

The first time I tried to install swapspace it corrupted my root somehow and I had to create a new partition from windows to install linux on.

Have you heard of zram? You can compress parts of your RAM and free up space.

 

[Ishmael]

Unfortunately, this is a shit idea.
1) RAM is designed to be written and erased alot more than SSDs. SSDs have a finite lifespan(so does ram, but its really high). This will wear your drive out quickly.
2) NVMe drives are ~14-16GB/s(i think). while DDR5 can easily reach 50GB/s
3) The latency will be much higher its not direct like RAM. You have to go through the USB hub or PCIe bridge

Yeah I don't know much about RAM; I knew SSD/s had the finite lifespan but didn't really think about how much RAM nowadays read/writes. I also think I'm stuck in the past about 10 years. I keep forgetting about how much exponentially hardware has improved. Also, I was talking about a PCIe bridge, I have a similar one in my PC and it can support about 4. I knew it was too good to be true lol.