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NO. Swap is evil. The swap on HDD-based systems kills performance. with SSDs you can afford constant interruptions at cost of faster wearout(especially TLC/QL
by countWSS 3y ago
NO. Swap is evil.
The swap on HDD-based systems
kills performance.
with SSDs you can afford constant interruptions
at cost of faster wearout(especially TLC/QLC).
The gaslighting about swap being neccessary/good or
fast is strange - most machines run order of magnitude
faster without swap once you get a moderate load(even SSD benefit).
Some exotic workload need lots of RAM but demanding
this swapping be enabled by default is bad, its utility is justified by
weird ideas that "some shitware needs swap to work, because it just is so leave it
on and don't change it".
- fernvenue 3y agoThanks! And you're absolutely right, actually my biggest concern when debating the need for SWAP partition is whether there are some programs that depend on the SWAP partition to work.