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Where on earth did you get this misconception?

• commandersaki 1y ago
  Lived experience? With swap system stays up but is unresponsive, without it is either responsive due to oom kill or completely down.
  • GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
    in either case, what do you do? if you can't reach a box and it's otherwise safe to do so, you just reboot it. so is it just a matter of which situation occurs more often?
    • commandersaki 1y ago
      The thing is you can survive memory exhaustion if the oom killer can do its job, which it can't many times when there's swap. I guess the topmost response to this thread talks about an earlyoom tool that might alleivate this, but I've never used it, and I don't find swap helpful anyway so there's no need for me to go down this route.