Hi Maurice,

On 2021-04-14 21:57:54, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> swapoff -a

 MK> I haven't used swap in around 25 years now.  What for?  DDR4 is cheap, or
 MK> at least was the last time I checked and infinetly better than swap.  Why
 MK> would you do this to any machine?

On a busy server a little bit of swap can be usefull, so the kernel doesn't start killing random processes right away when it runs out of real memory. This gives the administrator some time to take messures, without risking unplanned interrupted services...

Bye, Wilfred.

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