alt Hacker NewsI think discussing it in a vacuum is pointless, it should depend on how much memory you have. You can have a swap on, but with a low `vm.swappiness` number.
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man8alexd • yesterday at 3:20 PM
vm.swappiness doesn’t work the way most people assume it does. and it is ignored under heavy memory pressure.
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The point is that disabling swap does not prevent page eviction. Instead of swap, this discussion should be about the page cache.