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But also false. Swap is there so anonymous pages can be evicted. Not as a “slow overflow for RAM”, as a lot of people still believe.
By disabling swap you can actually *increase* thrashing, because the kernel is more limited in what it can do with the virtual memory.
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But also false. Swap is there so anonymous pages can be evicted. Not as a “slow overflow for RAM”, as a lot of people still believe.
By disabling swap you can actually *increase* thrashing, because the kernel is more limited in what it can do with the virtual memory.