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by hejdufufjrj 745 days ago
Your on a desktop.

In a server environment you don't have the luxury of running your 4 GB needing app on a 128 GB machine - that means you have overprovissioned and are paying a stupid tax.

A modern server aims to run as close as possible to 100% CPU and RAM usage.

In those cases you need swap to kick out rarely used memory (initialization, ...)