MemBalancer is a relatively new analysis paper that argues having swap allows maximum performance by allowing small excesses, that avoids needing to over-provis

MemBalancer is a relatively new analysis paper that argues having swap allows maximum performance by allowing small excesses, that avoids needing to over-provision ram instead. The kind of gc does not matter since data spends very little time in that state and on the flip side, most of the time the application has twice has access to twice as much memory to use