>>945036>Sometimes I use music programs and video editing so its kinda easy to reach the 32GB limit if I want.>But considering that it keeps my SSDs longer aliverA good compromise is to get a $30 120GB NVMe SSD just for the swapfile and scratch files. That way if you blow it up you're only out $30 and haven't lost any data. Plus you get faster overall throughput because your swap isn't competing with your storage.
Paradoxically, swap is actually faster than no swap, because processes make pages that get hit less often than some of the files on disk. It's impossible to keep track of millions of 4k pages and millions of files by hand, but the OS certainly can keep track, which means it knows for certain what's getting used most. If you allow the OS to swap, that means you're allowing it to push memory that's really never getting used onto the disk and bring in files on disk that are accessed more often than that memory. It's paradoxical because you would expect that having all your application memory in RAM would be faster, but it's not faster because programs ask for memory then don't use it and don't give it back.
