"Personally I treat it as a failure if we ever hit swap" /agree. but still a useful feature. The degraded performance a system will show when it starts hitti

"Personally I treat it as a failure if we ever hit swap" /agree. but still a useful feature. The degraded performance a system will show when it starts hitting disk instead of memory is a great 'soft' failure. I think it is good to have graduations. Going from 'OK' to 'Damn-this-is-slow' before 'Fail' is handy.