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by ars 296 days ago
If you have checksum errors reading data from disk, you have much worse issues than ram corruption. Any program you launch will probably be corrupted.

Although if you do swap on a server (and you should), the swap needs to be on a raid, otherwise your server will crash on a disk error.

Swap on a server is not meant for handling low memory issues, instead there's tons of data on a server that's almost never used, so instead swap that out and make more room for cache.