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"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026
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I have swap allocated too, but if you're sitting there continually powering RAM and have a whole lot of it available (rarer these days), it doesn't make a lot of sense to throw all of your running programs into it when there's no current memory pressure. It degrades performance needlessly.
I love how little linux swaps with a large amount of RAM. I was one of those fortunate enough to buy computers with large amounts of RAM before the rampocalypse occurred. So I have 64gb in this laptop, and I want it to be used.