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A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

63 points · 28 comments · shellpipe

  1. ahmedmostafa16 · · focus · HN ↗
    The nasty bit is that swap doesn't just make the allocation slower; if GC metadata gets paged out, you have turned memory pressure into a stop-the-world latency spike.
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