[lazide]

100% agree.

In a situation where a bunch of memory is being used by something that is literally not needed and won’t be needed in a hurry, then it’s not a big deal.

In my experience though, it’s just a landmine waiting to explode, and someone will touch it and bam useless and often difficult to fix machine, usually at the most inconvenient time. But I also don’t keep things running that aren’t necessary.

If someone puts swap on something with sufficiently high performance, then obviously this is less of a concern too. Have a handful of extra NVMe or fast SSD lying around? Then ok.

I tend to be using those already though for other things (and sometimes maxing those out, and if I am, almost always when I have max memory pressure), so meh.

I’ve had better experience having it fail early and often so I can fix the underlying issue.