Swap Space Debate
Comments debate whether to enable, disable, or replace traditional swap with alternatives like zram/zswap, focusing on performance, SSD wear, memory fragmentation, and systems with ample RAM.
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Sensibly configured compressed memory brings benefits of swap without much of its shortcomings. So use that, not swap.
I hope they are running with swap turned off...
sometimes it's an alternative to just disable swap.
why not turn off swap entirely?
If you have SSD you can pretty good use swap
4.5 petabytes of RAM... that's what swap is for.
Imagine the swap file it would need!
Pages still exist even if you disable swap. Maybe you could benefit from reading TFA?
You may want to reconsider whether you want swap disabled:http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dont-throw-those-paging-files-away.html
If you have enough storage to use as swap, it should.