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		edwintorok on June 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Improved default settings for Linux machines Because that depends on the kernel version, I took the more reliable approach of using 'swapoff -a' (or in fact not defining any swap in my /etc/fstab). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940136

scott_s on June 25, 2014 [–]

Which then means that you're not allowing the kernel to make such decisions as what I described. (Rarely used pages paged out to allow for more disk cache.)

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