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Re:In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018) by roelschroeven on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:29AM (#31109885)
It's only one datapoint, but at this very moment a server at work is using a notable amount of swap, 1.5 GiB to be more precise, while functioning perfectly normally.

    $ free -h
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:          3.9Gi       1.7Gi       573Mi       180Mi       1.6Gi       1.7Gi
    Swap:         4.0Gi       1.5Gi       2.5Gi
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Re:In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018) by lazide on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:33AM (#31109937)
I wish you luck! Only time that’s happened before was memory leaks for me, and it didn’t go very long before death spiraling. But if you’re comfortable with it, enjoy.
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Re:In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018) by roelschroeven on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:33PM (#31158868)
It's still working just fine, with still the same amount of swap in use (approximately).
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