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Disadvantages of using a swap file/partition on an SSD, even when swappiness is set to 0

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What are the disadvantages of using a swap file/partition on an SSD, even when swappiness is set to 0 I'm particularly interested in the /proc/sys/vm/swappiness=0 case. How much writes are still done, in practice, to that swap file, and does it have a negative impact to the SSD or any other disadva…

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Fix for: Disadvantages of using a swap file/partition on an SSD, even when swappiness is set to 0

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If you are not using more memory than amount of your physical memory, then your swap file is not used at all. In that case it does not matter. If your swappiness=0. I would say that if your applications are randomly using swap (exceeding amount of p…

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