> This is well known But also false. Swap is there so anonymous pages can be evicted. Not as a “slow overflow for RAM”, as a lot of people still believe. By d

> This is well known But also false. Swap is there so anonymous pages can be evicted. Not as a “slow overflow for RAM”, as a lot of people still believe. By disabling swap you can actually *increase* thrashing, because the kernel is more limited in what it can do with the virtual memory.