• khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        There was a dude somewhere on the internet that used Google drive for swap space. I’ll see if I can dig it up…

        Edit: link.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        23·
        1 day ago

        You like cursed?

        Way back in the mists of time I got a 32MB (not a typo) upgrade for an 8MB computer. In total: 40MB.

        Since I knew it ran fine with just the 8MB, I set up a RAM disk of 32MB and put the Windows swap file in it. Windows absolutely insisted (and maybe still does) that there be a swap file, so why not put that back in RAM?

        It worked perfectly, but that memory was better used for other things, so the cursed setup didn’t last all that long.

        Edits: Typo city baby.

        • dan@upvote.au
          3·
          14 hours ago

          I would have loved to have 32 MB RAM. I was stuck with a 486 with 16 MB RAM and 600ish MB HDD until 2003 or so, because we couldn’t afford to upgrade. I think I upgraded to a second-hand Pentium 3 at that point, and upgraded the RAM with mismatched RAM modules (different brands, different capacities) salvaged from systems my school was throwing away.

          A simpler time. I miss it sometimes. Neither me (as a teenager) nor my parents had any money, but I did have enough free time to learn how to code and play shareware games. It gave me something to do that didn’t cost much money. Over 20 years later and I’m still coding.

          • palordrolap@fedia.io
            3·
            21 hours ago

            You had me concerned for a second, but “mists of time” shows up on Wiktionary (easier to be wrong), Merriam Webster’s site (likely to be right) or the Oxford English Dictionary (practically canonical), whereas “midst(s) of time” does not.

            Collins Dictionary and Dictionary.com don’t list either, but the existence of the former in other places would seem to suggest that that’s the right one.

  • GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    What’s peoples issue? I’ve been talking to AI and had my agent code me some more RAM. Unlock your PCs power for free and follow me for more tips.

    /s

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
    27·
    1 day ago

    I downloaded more RAM in the 90s. It was a product called RAM Doubler for the Macintosh. At that time memory had to be pre-allocated for applications through a setting in the resource fork, always used exactly the amount you set, and couldn’t grow beyond that. It was static, making it hard to run multiple programs simultaneously. RAM Doubler did wonders to work around that OS limitation.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      4·
      23 hours ago

      There was a virtual swap space program that I downloaded in the Windows 95-98 era that did something similar. Worked reasonably well, if slowly, but everything was slower back then with computers.

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
    30·
    1 day ago

    Look, I’m not saying I’d gleefully burn Nvidia to the ground. I’m just saying I wouldn’t help put out the fire.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      I’d piss on nVidia, though.

      Especially if I had a massive amount of asparagus.

      It’s not likely to do much with a good fire, it, eh, it’s gonna make them smell nasty.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      231·
      1 day ago

      Use with caution.

      Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what’s worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.

      Just FYI, don’t double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

    • dan@upvote.au
      4·
      1 day ago

      At least this looks like it actually tried to do something.

      There was similar software for Windows, called SoftRAM. Turns out it didn’t actually do anything. Their driver was just sample code from Microsoft, and the app reported fake RAM savings.

  • turdas@suppo.fi
    11·
    1 day ago
    $ zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA COMPR   TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle      62.6G  2.8G  972M 1011.4M         [SWAP]

    Already did

    • lambaliciousEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      Based zramctl. Makes my 8GB RAM system run like I had 12 GB, which is quite significant in this new internet world where opening a second tab in a web browser costs almost 600 MB.

    • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
      2·
      1 day ago

      What’s the use case over RAM or disk swap? It’s compressed but faster than SSD? Hmm. That could help in distinct use cases…

      • turdas@suppo.fi
        6·
        1 day ago

        Yes, it’s basically faster than disk swap but uses some CPU cycles. The compression algorithms involved are very fast on modern CPUs so in some sense it’s “free RAM”.

        I set mine to almost 1:1 my physical RAM, because the way it works is that the zram disk size (62.6G there) is the amount of uncompressed data allowed on it, and the compression on real-world data is almost always at least 50% – so if the zram device fills up, it’ll be using something like 32G of physical memory. I’m yet to hit real-world usecases that would have tested these limits though, and the defaults are much more conservative.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
    91·
    1 day ago

    At this point I’m not even above buying a PC/laptop from Amazon, pulling the RAM then returning the whole thing…