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My real world experience is the same as GP's and the opposite of yours. In case of memory over-usage: With swap: system becomes unresponsive Without swap: OO
by Ferret7446 2y ago
My real world experience is the same as GP's and the opposite of yours.
In case of memory over-usage:
With swap: system becomes unresponsive
Without swap: OOM kills offending process
This has been my real world experience 100% of the time on Linux.