> if your working set is larger than RAM, you're screwed regardless. I mean, this is patently false. I've used 1TB swapfiles to get out of a sticky situation w

> if your working set is larger than RAM, you're screwed regardless. I mean, this is patently false. I've used 1TB swapfiles to get out of a sticky situation with some terrible research software that used a ton of memory to solve really valuable problems. There's nothing wrong with an absolute shit ton of swap when the alternative is OOM.