As the speed of your internet connection increases, there will be a point where disk I/O becomes the limiting factor. At this point you'll want to rent a VM with a decent amount of RAM and use tmpfs to host your local machine's swap space in memory.
While bandwidth will increase, latency won't.
Data centers would be constrained by an unchanging constant of physics, the speed of light. A modern consumer ssd taking 20us to load a page can't be outperformed by a server more than 3km away for swapping (random access, latency sensitive) workloads.
If you want to outsource your stuff to a server, either just do persistent storage or go all the way and send your keystrokes and receive back video.
This sounds very fast and efficient.
Very private, much stable.
tbf it could be alright privacy-wise if you use encrypted swap
The design is very human.
I keep all my swap on a ramdisk its much faster than disk IO. /s
That's pretty much zram
TIL: and its actually useful due to compression.
Looked this up, turned on zswap on my cheap laptop and now it's so much more usable, thanks
at work i made a rpm to set up zswap on our rhel 7 (ughhhh) workstations and the description was "download more ram!"
Wow, someone finally let us download more ram in linux
You kid, but this is actually true.
Some google data center out there is questioning what the actual fuck.
Reminds me of pingfs, which stores data in in-flight ICMP packages: https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/
I love how absurd pingfs is. It's also one of the few cases where network congestion actually improves capacity.
put all your swap on google drive so google chrome can use it all
Stop, I can only get so erect.
The famous 16 words...
As the speed of your internet connection increases, there will be a point where disk I/O becomes the limiting factor. At this point you'll want to rent a VM with a decent amount of RAM and use tmpfs to host your local machine's swap space in memory.
While bandwidth will increase, latency won't.
Data centers would be constrained by an unchanging constant of physics, the speed of light. A modern consumer ssd taking 20us to load a page can't be outperformed by a server more than 3km away for swapping (random access, latency sensitive) workloads.
If you want to outsource your stuff to a server, either just do persistent storage or go all the way and send your keystrokes and receive back video.
It's a joke, just like the original post.
jokes of this type are fun to disect and no single party gets a monopoly on the fun
I just got the impression that the respondent missed that point.
We're reaching levels of based that shouldn't even be possible