<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Running without swap used to be a really risky proposition, but these days, running with out it is fine. Though oom-killer might do things you may not like. Since it's your desktop, that's probably OK, but on a server, it might cause problems if oom-killer whacked your database after killing sshd. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>You'll note that most cloud images and the like don't run with a swap.</div><div><br></div><div>-Scott</div><div><br>On Jan 4, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>On my Ubuntu 15.04 running 3.19 I have found that having swap can be a real problem. I think this has a lot to do with Chrome. I have 8G on the machine and when coming back from screen saver or other tasks response takes a substantial drop. I know it is swapping pages. Disabling swap solves this problem. I ran my desktop over a month with no swap and forgot to turn it off after a reboot. I just had to wait 5 minutes so it would become responsive again.</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>