Post #2727369
2026-05-20 20:30 UTC
Swapping will make it slower not faster, reduce jobs?
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@Outsider9042@lemmy.world 2026-05-20 23:40
No. Most of the build jobs are fast and small. A couple take up gigabytes at a time. Swap is on SSD anyway. Its fast enough. I also use NixOS and GuixSD. There are cases where binary caches haven't caught up with the package definition. Situations like Librewolf, LibreOffice and kernel all compiling at the same time. Sure I could mess around with limiting jobs and build runners... Or I could just have swap, and never worry about it again. Just a BTRFS swapfile. I'm not worried too much about performance. I rarely hit it and most of the time i don't even need it. Until I do.