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Yeah my reply was to the "disable swap" part of the discussion, not the swappiness one.

• scott_s 12y ago
  Disabling swap means setting swappiness to 0; I'm not sure how you can talk about "disabling swap" without talking about swappiness.
  • edwintorok 12y ago
    Because that depends on the kernel version, I took the more reliable approach of using 'swapoff -a' (or in fact not defining any swap in my /etc/fstab). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940136
    • scott_s 12y ago
      Which then means that you're not allowing the kernel to make such decisions as what I described. (Rarely used pages paged out to allow for more disk cache.)