Interesting. I used to have considerable swap as the last line of defence against certain memory hog cases, back with not-very-fast spinning rust (Thinkpad R61i

Interesting. I used to have considerable swap as the last line of defence against certain memory hog cases, back with not-very-fast spinning rust (Thinkpad R61i). I rarely had heavy thrashing, and worst case I had the choice of killing Firefox (4.0 back then!) or making fresh cup of tea - but usually it meant that things would spill over then get back into good condition. Funnily enough, I mostly suffer from thrashing today, on Mac, especially with chrome. And it's mostly with compressed memory, though overzealous nature of swapping in macos doesn't help.