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A deep-dive investigation shows that Go's stop-the-world GC pauses can balloon to ~40ms when GC metadata pages are evicted to swap, with page faults during GC bookkeeping accounting for most of the delay (39 of 40ms across 228 faults).
Chain Exchange (ArrowDEX) launches on Product Hunt as a DeFi platform on Arc, allowing users to swap, bridge, and move stablecoins such as USDC, EURC and cirBTC across chains from a single interface.
The article provides a guide on configuring swap, ZRAM, Zswap, and hibernation on NixOS for desktops and laptops, with practical examples and recommendations for optimal settings.
The article advocates for using swap files instead of swap partitions in Linux systems, highlighting benefits like flexibility and ease of management.
User seeks advice on preventing llama.cpp from offloading KV cache to swap before RAM is fully exhausted, sharing their configuration on an M2 Max with 96GB RAM and a large Qwen model.
nbd-vram is a Linux tool that uses NVIDIA GPU VRAM as swap space via the NBD protocol and CUDA, providing extra memory for systems with soldered RAM and no upgrade path.