> With swap, your system becomes completely unresponsive for longer than you have patience for, so you power-cycle it.
My entire life using linux (>15 years) never had a situation where once swap caused system to slow down, system eventually got back on feet. Usually, swap causes other apps to slow down, swap and put system in a state it can't recover from.
Maybe I'm mistaken but my rule of thumb is to never use swap unless I specifically need it. This means, for a default desktop OS, I would never enable swap. If we run out of memory, apps should be killed.
My entire life using linux (>15 years) never had a situation where once swap caused system to slow down, system eventually got back on feet. Usually, swap causes other apps to slow down, swap and put system in a state it can't recover from.
Maybe I'm mistaken but my rule of thumb is to never use swap unless I specifically need it. This means, for a default desktop OS, I would never enable swap. If we run out of memory, apps should be killed.