Re: why swap at all?

[John Bradford]

Quote from Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Does this explain in coarse examples to the desktop users why ideal systems 
> shouldn't be swap disabled or swappiness=0 ?

Yes, except in the case where you are processing a small, (relative to
physical RAM), dataset, and not even touching all physical RAM.

(I admit, this isn't really typical desktop usage, though).

John.
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