• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    Why, of course! People on here saying it’s impossible, smh

    Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of thrashing. What is thrashing? It’s when you run out of ram. Luckily, most computers these days do something like swap space - they just treat your SSD as extra slow extra RAM.

    Your computer gets locked up when it genuinely doesn’t have enough RAM still though, so it unloads some RAM into disk, puts what it needs right now back into RAM, executes a bit of processing, then the program tells it actually needs some of what got shelved on disk. And it does it super fast, so it’s dropping the thing it needs hundreds of times a second - technology is truly remarkable

    Depending on how the software handles it, it might just crash… But instead it might just take literal hours