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by AstralStorm 3075 days ago
Indeed. None of the above are typically used (as in most of the time) on desktop systems where swap is the most problematic. As for compession, the only engine I know of that wants more than 128 MB of RAM is lrzip and other rzip derivatives.

Common offenders that bog down the system in swap for me as a developer are the web browser, JVM (Android) and electron based apps (messengers, two).

I would also like a source that substantiate the claim that using swap in map-reduce workloads actually helps. Or perhaps in database workloads. Or on any machine with relatively fixed workload.