> On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually > useful, but I'm skeptical. I always tend to end up with GB of free > RAM and a churning hard drive when I enable it. On SSD I'm sure it > will perform better, but then I'm running through erase cycles > instead.
It may be a stupid question, but are you setting vm.swappiness to a reasonable value? The default setting of 60 does tend to lead to swapping far earlier than is reasonable for modern desktops with 8+GB RAM. Cheers, Robert.
