On 2024-01-30 23:24, James Knott wrote:

On 1/30/24 17:05, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:

On dinsdag 30 januari 2024 22:41:05 CET Carlos E.R. via openSUSE Users wrote:
Why is swap zero bytes? I know it is not needed, but still, after some
uptime it tends to have some.
Eh, my 4.5 year old Tuxedo has a 2 GB swap, 32 GB of RAM and swap is still 
(and has always been) 0

I go back to the pre swap days, when overlays were used.

Yeah, I remember overlays in MsDOS. I used them in my own programs in TPascal. And other tricks.
I wrote a program at work which would offload itself except a stub (to disk or enhanced/extended ram) to allow loading of another program. It was the only way. So there was a small master which would display the menu, and then load sections, transferring needed data via disk files. And sometimes the whole thing would crash. The client would ask, I would shrug.

O tempora, o mores!

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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)