This is sort of fair, but working very slowly occurs in more than one dimension.
Swap on means applications may be slower due to page faults requiring swapped out memory.
Swap off may mean file system operations are slower due to less opportunity to file system cache frequently used objects.
There is still a trade off here on performance balanced against use case.
Swap on means applications may be slower due to page faults requiring swapped out memory. Swap off may mean file system operations are slower due to less opportunity to file system cache frequently used objects.
There is still a trade off here on performance balanced against use case.