• redjard@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Generally it only happens to programs you keep running in the background and might not use for a long time that also don’t have much background activity. For example password managers.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 day ago

      It depends on what you set your swappiness to, too. I think Linux distros still have pretty aggressive defaults that swap more than they probably need to.

      • DevDave@piefed.social
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        8 hours ago

        I have taken a couple classes in Linux centric forensics and one of the things I often wandered about is if there is an easy way to add jitter or shift individual file blocks by a word (64 bits) or even half the size of a data block. Say every two hours shift up or down so attempts to read a mechanical hard drive would be chaotic.