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> swap is used when you run out of ram

This is not correct. Swap is not a RAM overflow.

> Swap is not generally about getting emergency memory, it's about making memory reclamation egalitarian and efficient. In fact, using it as "emergency memory" is generally actively harmful.

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html



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