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I've heard the "no swap" argument before, but can you explain this a little further?

It seems like there are two potential situations here: 1/ You have swap, you hit swap. Massive slowdown. 2/ You don't have swap, run out of memory and processes die.

#1 is not a good situation, but it seems preferable to #2 doesn't it?



"No swap" is a common misconception. Having no swap is dangerous and can actually slow down your system.




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