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While I would not remove the swap on a production machine just to be safe, I've been running my home computers for ~5 years exclusively on Linux without swap. I
by Oxodao 4y ago
While I would not remove the swap on a production machine just to be safe, I've been running my home computers for ~5 years exclusively on Linux without swap. I've never encountered any of those issues for some reasons
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI usually don't have swap on my workstations either, which is why I initially thought I could get away with it on my server. Probably different usage patterns. I routinely memory map something like half a terabyte of data on this machine. Might also be due to huge pages, that feature seems a bit janky to be honest.