On: Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM

[dahart]

RAM is just cache for your drive. And these days your drive is just cache for the internet. It’s all memory, one big memory.

[eru → dahart]

Most of the time, my RAM directly caches the internet. (Ie when I watch YouTube or browse the web, stuff doesn't typically go on disk.)

[EricE → dahart]

RAM is NOT cache for your drive. It's the active work space where the CPU tracks all the bits and bobs of executing code - state, variables, etc.

Swap space on disk is a cache of RAM, if you want to go down that path - but RAM and disk support entirely different purposes.

[dahart → EricE]

Or, swap (and hibernate) are the RAM cache flushing to disk. ;)