Re: [RFC][PATCH] avoid swapping out with swappiness==0

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Richard Davies wrote:

> I strongly believe that Linux should have a way to turn off swapping unless
> absolutely necessary. This means that users like us can run with swap
> present for emergency use, rather than having to disable it because of the
> side effects.

Agree. And this ooperation mode should be the default behavior given that
swapping is a very slow and tedious process these days.

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