[ale] No swap is better than swap

[Scott McBrien]

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.  :-)

You'll note that most cloud images and the like don't run with a swap.

-Scott

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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