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by fs2 2614 days ago
Disagree, on most of my systems I don't even have swap partition anymore. The few times I need it, I can just create a swap file on the fly and have any amount of swap memory.

Performance problems the author describes can be fixed 90% of the time by changing the dirty_background_ratio in the kernel as described here:

https://linuxmaster.cc/s/improve_performance_and_fix_unrespo...