On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:00 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > >> Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> As swapping is no longer considered normal on modern computers, >> >> It isn't? When did that happen? > > Thing is, the moment you start thrashing, the game is over.
Indeed. But swapping != thrashing. For what it's worth, three of the five sys admins I work with prefer not to use swap space on the Linux desktops they build. I'm not sure what their opinion is about servers. I *think* they would be okay with it if the server was using SSD rather than spinning metal. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list