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In a previous cloud hosting provider experience, swap was disabled everywhere

Every instances were designed to:

  - have ~1GB for basic server requirements
  - have XGB for whatever the server was hosting: database ? web server ? proxy ? All have known memory consumptions
  - if required, have some extra GB for IO cache
So we had some known requirements (the "app" line) and some variables requirements (IO cache and "basic server requirements")

Some extra informations:

  - one instance = one service (this is the way to handle technical debt, all managements issues, but also risk management and security-related stuff)
  - storage was backed with half-millions effective IOPS stuff
No oom and no waste



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