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Operating Systems Linux Underutilization of Linux memory Post 303044175 by Neo on Sunday 16th of February 2020 07:05:14 AM
Old 02-16-2020
For example...

Can I run without swap? Is further tuning possible?

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Systems without swap can make sense and are supported by Red Hat - just be sure the behaviour of such a system under memory pressure is what you want. In most environments, a bit of swap makes sense.
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Do we really need swap on modern systems?

It should be clear to anyone, that if you have enough memory (and memory is very cheap) that you do not need swap on a modern Linux system. This is fairly well documented; although some swap is recommended.

There is no harm in the original poster turning off swap and observing themselves, what happens.
 

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