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If something gets leaky enough then it's still going to hurt performance for a while and die.

Swap delays that but extra RAM delays it too. If you take a use case where 2GB of memory is fine, and give it 8GB, then you already solved the problem swap would solve. You can always add more but you're past the point of diminishing returns.



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