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Do my eyes deceive me, or is nobody talking about what the article actually says? There is exactly one case where swap can be helpful: when 1. there are low t
by Ferret7446 2y ago
Do my eyes deceive me, or is nobody talking about what the article actually says?
There is exactly one case where swap can be helpful: when
1. there are low traffic memory pages that can be swapped out in lieu of
2. page caches in the working set that would otherwise be dropped, and
3. you can't/don't want to pay for more memory.
In particular: swap is NOT for when your system is out of memory.