• horn_e4_beaver
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      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.

        • spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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          2 months ago

          jokes of this type are fun to disect and no single party gets a monopoly on the fun

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            2 months ago

            I just got the impression that the respondent missed that point.