As the speed of your internet connection increases, there will be a point where disk I/O becomes the limiting factor. At this point you'll want to rent a VM with a decent amount of RAM and use tmpfs to host your local machine's swap space in memory.
While bandwidth will increase, latency won't.
Data centers would be constrained by an unchanging constant of physics, the speed of light. A modern consumer ssd taking 20us to load a page can't be outperformed by a server more than 3km away for swapping (random access, latency sensitive) workloads.
If you want to outsource your stuff to a server, either just do persistent storage or go all the way and send your keystrokes and receive back video.
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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 126 pts · 243d
This sounds very fast and efficient.
kopasz7@sh.itjust.works · 102 pts · 243d
Very private, much stable.
kotauskas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 242d
tbf it could be alright privacy-wise if you use encrypted swap
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 242d
The design is very human.
groet@feddit.org · 65 pts · 242d
I keep all my swap on a ramdisk its much faster than disk IO. /s
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de · 35 pts · 242d
That's pretty much zram
groet@feddit.org · 20 pts · 242d
TIL: and its actually useful due to compression.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 242d
Looked this up, turned on zswap on my cheap laptop and now it's so much more usable, thanks
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 242d
Wow, someone finally let us download more ram in linux
sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 241d
at work i made a rpm to set up zswap on our rhel 7 (ughhhh) workstations and the description was "download more ram!"
ragas@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 242d
You kid, but this is actually true.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 54 pts · 243d
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 242d
Some google data center out there is questioning what the actual fuck.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 242d
Reminds me of pingfs, which stores data in in-flight ICMP packages: https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 242d
I love how absurd pingfs is. It's also one of the few cases where network congestion actually improves capacity.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 242d
put all your swap on google drive so google chrome can use it all
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 242d
Stop, I can only get so erect.
Spider89@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 242d
msage@programming.dev · 2 pts · 242d
The famous 16 words...
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 242d
As the speed of your internet connection increases, there will be a point where disk I/O becomes the limiting factor. At this point you'll want to rent a VM with a decent amount of RAM and use tmpfs to host your local machine's swap space in memory.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 242d
While bandwidth will increase, latency won't.
Data centers would be constrained by an unchanging constant of physics, the speed of light. A modern consumer ssd taking 20us to load a page can't be outperformed by a server more than 3km away for swapping (random access, latency sensitive) workloads.
If you want to outsource your stuff to a server, either just do persistent storage or go all the way and send your keystrokes and receive back video.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 241d
It's a joke, just like the original post.
spujb@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 241d
jokes of this type are fun to disect and no single party gets a monopoly on the fun
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 241d
I just got the impression that the respondent missed that point.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 242d
We're reaching levels of based that shouldn't even be possible