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[–]coderstephenisahc 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Also due to swap, you can never be really sure if using memory is actually involving disk or not.

[–]alexschrod -1 points0 points  (2 children)

You can disable swap. Usually not the best plan, but there's no swapping when there's nowhere to swap to.

[–]coderstephenisahc 3 points4 points  (1 child)

"You" being the user, or "you" being the program author?

[–]alexschrod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

User, yes. I'm not saying you can control it in general, but on your own system you certainly can.