Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:00 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> 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.
Not sure if this is still valid: Still today Flash RAM cells built in SSDs have a limited lifespan. Every write (not read) cycle or better every erasure wears a memory cell and at some time it will stop working. <URL: https://askubuntu.com/questions/652337/why-no-swap-partition s-on-ssd-drives> I really don't see much point with swap space nowadays, anyway. Especially as it comes to production servers, you should reserve enough RAM for worst-case needs. And make sure you really need that much RAM; you probably don't. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
