It will crash as soon as it needs to touch the swap due to the relatively insane latency difference.

Imagine doing this on a dial-up 56K modem

wait, didn't some tech youtubers like LTT try using cloud storage as swap/RAM? afaik they failed because of latency

I feel like this might be a giant gaping security risk.

Oh wow, I didn't even know Gdrive offered a 1 petabyte option 😂

Unironically that's how zram works

In a database course I took, the teacher told a story about a company that would take three days to insert a single order. Thing was, they were the sort of company that took in one or two orders every year. When it's your whole revenue on the line, you want to make sure everything is correct. The relations in that database were checked to hell and back, and they didn't care if it took a week.

Though that would have been in the 90s, so it'd go a lot faster now.

A very very badly written one no doubt..

You should be able to fit a model like LLaMa2 in 64GB RAM, but output will be pretty slow if it's CPU-only. GPUs are a lot faster but you'd need at least 48GB of VRAM, for example two 3090s.

Wrote my master thesis this way - didn't have enough ram or knowledge, but plenty of time on the lab machine, so I let it do its thing over night.

Sorry, lab machine ssd.

Even better, you can swapoff swap too!

Absolutely can and will take action. Doesn't always kill the right process (sometimes it kills big database engines for the crime of existing), but usually gives me enough headroom to SSH back in and fix it myself.