tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.
  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    TLDR: Swap is useful to minimize memory contention, put it on your fastest drive, and set vm.swappiness to 100 for ssd swap for optimal swap operation, or leave vm.swappiness alone or set it between 1-50 for spinny bois (lower is better for slow rando. reads)