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marshray
on Dec 5, 2012
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So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)
Yes, also in Windows. So it's another reason to have a swap partition, but not to actually swap to it in normal operation.
jlgreco
on Dec 5, 2012
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No harm swapping to it if you have it, as far as I can tell.
marshray
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If you have a server attempting to process a steady stream of incoming transactions at the edge of its capacity and it begins turning memory IO operations into disk IO (which is 1000 times slower), that is harmful to response times.
jlgreco
on Dec 5, 2012
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There probably isn't a lot of sense in having swap for suspend to disk on a server anyway of course.
I've only heard the heuristic in the context of workstations/laptops.
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