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by mkl 3735 days ago
What happens if you turn off swap while using more virtual memory than you have RAM?
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brobinson 3735 days ago
I imagine the OOM killer would take out a process. In that case, I would suggest paying for some more ram before turning off swap. Swap is death for performance! :)
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nbevans 3734 days ago
But necessary.
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